John Bradshaw Gass
John Bradshaw Gass (18 June 1855 to 3 July 1939) British Architect and Artist. Gass was a nephew of J. J. Bradshaw, the founder of Bradshaw Gass & Hope. He received the Ashbury Prize for Civil Engineering at Owens College (later Manchester University). He assisted Sir Ernest George in London before, in 1880, becoming a pupil of his uncle in Bolton. When Gass became a partner, in 1882, the firm adopted the style Bradshaw & Gass.
Like Sir Edwin Lutyens, another traditionalist and pupil of Ernest George, Gass designed country houses in period and vernacular styles. Gass designed the Methodist College (1917–25) at Medak, India, which, like Lutyens’ work at New Delhi, is organised in the Grand Manner around a central axis.
Gass was a keen watercolour artist and first exhibited his work at the Royal Academy in 1879. In later life, when he had less architectural input at Bradshaw Gass & Hope, Gass frequently travelled and filled more than twenty albums with his sketches of North Africa and Asia.
[edit] References
- James R. Adamson, “John Bradshaw Gass” [obituary], RIBA Journal, 46 (1939), pp. 952–3.
- A. Stuart Gray, (1985) Edwardian Architecture, A Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0 7156 2141 6.
- Austen Redman (2007), Bolton Civic Centre and the Classical Revival Style of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke (editors), Making Manchester, Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, ISBN 978-0-900942-01-3
