Alexander Scoles

Alexander Joseph Cory Scoles (30 November 1844 – 29 December 1920) was an architect who designed many lancet style Gothic Revival churches in the south of England, and a Roman Catholic priest. He was the son of Joseph John Scoles, and brother of Ignatius Scoles.

Life Alexander Scoles, like his brother Ignatius Scoles, was born in Hammersmith, London. He was the third son of the architect Joseph John Scoles, whose works included the Roman Catholic churches of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, Saint Francis Xavier in Liverpool and St Ignatius in Preston, Lancashire.

His eldest brother, Ignatius, became a Catholic, joining the Jesuits on 9 October 1860. Alexander Scoles followed him into the Catholic church, becoming a priest in the Diocese of Clifton, later becoming a canon. He moved from Yeovil and the Diocese of Clifton in 1901 and became a parish priest in Basingstoke. He died in the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth on 29 December 1920 in London, and is buried in the grounds of Holy Ghost Church in Basingstoke. Immaculate Conception Church, Clevedon (1887) St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury (1891) Holy Ghost Church, Yeovil (1891) St Peter-in-Chains Church, Stroud Green (1894) St Peter's Church, Cirencester (1895) St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Woodford Green (1895) St Francis Church, Ascot, Berkshire (1900) Holy Ghost Church, Basingstoke (1901) Holy Redeemer Church, Keyham, Devon Holy Spirit and St Edward Church, Swanage (1904) Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth (1906) St Joseph's Church, Brighton (1906) St James the Less and St Helen Church, Colchester, church hall (1911) Holy Ghost Church, Exmouth (1915) St Joseph Church, Newton Abbot (1915)

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