Alexander Scoles

Alexander Joseph Cory Scoles (30 November 1844 – 29 December 1920) was an architect and Roman Catholic priest.

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.

Alexander Scoles followed him in becoming a priest, but not a Jesuit, instead he joined the Diocese of Clifton, later becoming a canon.

His early professional work was done in partnership with his cousin John Myrie Cory (1846–1893).

[5] He moved from Yeovil and the Diocese of Clifton in 1901 and became a parish priest in Basingstoke.