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Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops OBE (26 April 1947 – 2 July 1995, in London) was an architectural historian and journalist. Education.
Gervase Jackson-Stops, who was the Architectural Adviser to the National Trust for over twenty years, broke fresh ground when he fought for the rescue of the then decaying manor-house in the 1980s. This was the first time that the Trust used its charitable funds rather than the traditional family endowment to save a historic house.
Drayton House is a Grade I listed [1] country house of many periods [2] 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England.. Described as Northamptonshire's most impressive medieval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner, [3] "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world" by architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops, [4] and (affectionately) "a most ...
Gervase Jackson-Stops, the architectural historian suggests, in his 1990 study The Country House in Perspective, that the main façade of the house was the inspiration for the British motorway signs which indicate the proximity of stately homes. [37] The stables, restored by the Trust in 2016 as the restaurant
The landscape architect Thomas Cook began to execute the plans for the park, ... Jackson-Stops, Gervase (1988). The Country House Garden (A grand tour).
The architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops describes Castle Coole as "a culmination of the Palladian traditions, yet strictly neoclassical in its chaste ornament and noble austerity", [145] while Alistair Rowan, in his 1979 volume, North West Ulster, of the Buildings of Ireland series, suggests that, at Coole, Wyatt designed a building ...
The menagerie, [5] turned into a house by Gervase Jackson-Stops is Grade II* listed. This is a one-storey building with corner pavilions and a raised central area. The surrounding windows are in the style of the architect James Gibbs.
Gervase Jackson-Stops (1947–1995), English architectural historian; Gervais Martel (born 1954), French businessman and football club president; Gervais Nolan (1796–1857), Canadian fur trapper; Gervase Peterson (born 1969), American contestant on the show Survivor; Gervase de Peyer (born 1926), English clarinettist and conductor