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The Spectator's Notes

Remembering Gavin Stamp, former architecture writer of The Spectator

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

Gavin Stamp, who died just before the year’s end, will be mourned by many Spectator readers. For years, particularly in the 1980s, he was the paper’s main voice on architectural questions, notably as they affected the public space. His voice, both angry and compassionate, would be raised whenever he thought someone in authority — in church, state, local government, big business — was damaging what belonged to the people.

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