14 JANUARY 1928, Page 3

The only criticism of Miss Scott's design which can plead

any justice would seem to be that her modernism does not recall the historical associations of Shakespeare. We certainly do not join in that criticism. Miss Scott has triumphantly based her work not on sentiment, but on physical appropriateness. She has designed with a grand simplicity which gives the quality of inevitability to her masses. Miss Scott, who is now twenty-nine years of age, was trained at the Architectural Association School, which may well be proud of her design. No doubt she has inherited instincts, as Sir Gilbert Scott was her great-uncle and her grandmother was a sister of G. F. Bodley. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Liverpool Cathedral, is her cousin.