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===Burial and grave=== [[File:Scott memorial, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.jpg|thumb|left|Memorial to Scott, inside Liverpool Cathedral, set into the floor beneath the central tower]] [[File:Grave of Giles Gilbert Scott 1.jpg|thumb|right|Scott's grave at Liverpool Cathedral]] Scott was buried by the monks of [[Ampleforth Abbey]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=35987|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|access-date=12 June 2014}}</ref> outside the west entrance of [[Liverpool Cathedral]], alongside his wife (Scott specifically requested that no body should be interred inside the building as he did not want it to become a mausoleum).<ref>Cotton, p. 154</ref> Although originally planned in the 1942 design for the west end of the cathedral to be within a porch, the site of the grave was eventually covered by a car park access road.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nowt marks the spot|url=http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/Nowt-marks-the-spot|website=Liverpool Confidential|access-date=12 June 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204511/http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/Nowt-marks-the-spot|archive-date=14 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The road layout was changed, the grave was restored and the grave marker replaced in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Work to start on the restoration of the Scott Memorial|url=http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/404/section.aspx/403/work_to_start_on_the_restoration_of_the_scott_memorial_|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190301/http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/404/section.aspx/403/work_to_start_on_the_restoration_of_the_scott_memorial_|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2014|website=Liverpool Cathedral|access-date=12 June 2014}}</ref> A requiem mass for Scott was celebrated by Father Patrick Casey at the Roman Catholic [[St James's, Spanish Place]], London, on 17 February 1960.<ref>"Requiem Masses", ''The Times'', 18 February 1960, p. 14</ref>
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