16-397: Charles Kirk may refer to: Charles Kirk (architect) (1791–1847), English builder Charlie Kirk (born 1993), American political activist, founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk (footballer) (born 1997), English footballer. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
32-459: A Magistrates Court in 2003. The Sessions House in Spalding, Lincolnshire, was built in 1842 to 1843 and was designed by Charles Kirk and erected at a cost of £6,000. It was opened on 30 June 1843. There are two crenellated side towers and a recessed centre, which is two storeys high, with three bays divided by buttresses. In the centre are heraldic beast finials. There are three windows between
48-456: A symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing Church Close. The central section of three bays featured an arched doorway flanked by two bi-partite mullioned and transomed windows, all with traceried panels above; on the first floor there was a large tri-partite mullioned and transomed window flanked by two bi-partite mullioned and transomed windows. The bays were separated by buttresses surmounted by statues of lions and, at roof level, there
64-426: The 1830s, the justices complained that the guildhall was too small for them and it was agreed to commission a new sessions house. The site they selected, just to the north of St Botolph's Church , had been occupied by an Augustine priory. The new building was the designed by Charles Kirk from Sleaford , built in ashlar stone at a cost of £10,000 and was officially opened on 17 October 1843. The design involved
80-503: The Gasworks (1838). He formed a partnership with Thomas Parry , who had been an articled clerk with Kirk's firm. In 1841, Parry married Charles Kirk's daughter, Henrietta. Following Charles Kirk's death in 1847, the firm was taken over by his son, also called Charles in partnership with Parry. The business continued to prosper and Kirk and Parry established a countrywide reputation for their railway buildings and church restorations. Kirk
96-597: The Quarter Sessions and the Kirton and Skirbeck Bench. It has been subject to very few alterations, most of which have been carried out in the custody and service areas located to the rear of the ground floor. The custody area has four cells which were labelled on the original plans (the location of which is now unknown) as ‘Male Felon at Hard Labour’, ‘Male Felon not at Hard Labour’, ‘Female Felon at Hard Labour’ and ‘Common Ward’. The Sessions House ceased to be used as
112-654: The bridges in the Sleaford area. He was the main building contractor for the Stamford architect Bryan Browning for Folkingham House of Correction and supervised extensive alterations to Browning’s Bourne Town Hall in 1845. The Sessions House in Boston, Lincolnshire, was built between 1841 and 1842 and very similar to the Sessions House in Spalding (which was completed in 1843). The new building accommodated
128-474: The building of the new Sessions House at Sleaford which had been designed by the London architect H E Kendall and when the work was completed he decided to stay in Sleaford. In the years that followed, Kirk's building business and architectural practice flourished and he was involved in the construction or planning of many of Sleaford's new buildings, including Carre's Hospital, Carre's Grammar School (1834) and
144-586: The buttresses with 'Perpendicular' tracery and a central four-centred doorway. Boston Sessions House Boston Sessions House is a judicial structure in Church Close, Boston, Lincolnshire , England. The structure, which used to be the main courthouse for the north of Parts of Holland , is a Grade II* listed building. The first venue for the quarter sessions in Boston was the Guildhall which had been used for that purpose since 1660. However, in
160-472: The county council moved to a dedicated building known as County Hall , which was erected on the same site just to southeast of the sessions house in 1927, the sessions house was used solely for judicial purposes. The building fell vacant after the magistrates moved to a new courthouse in Norfolk Street in 2003. In 2016, developers, Paul and Amy Wilkinson took possession of the whole site (including
176-559: The great influence that Robert Smirke ’s Gothic revival County Hall in Lincoln Castle had on Kirk. The Gothic revival was a style which Kirk was to adopt, very successfully for many of his buildings in Sleaford and elsewhere in Lincolnshire. The accounts at the back of the journal provide a record of the many surveying and building projects undertaken by Kirk over the period 1833-1848. He frequently carried out work on many of
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#1732801142938192-491: The ground floor, a magistrates' retiring room on the first floor and a strong room on the second floor: the main courtroom was at the back of the building. The building continued to be used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888 , which established county councils in every county, it also became the meeting place of Holland County Council . After
208-496: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Kirk&oldid=1191059147 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Kirk (architect) Charles Kirk (1791–1847)
224-457: Was a crenellated parapet which was decorated by a panel bearing the Royal coat of arms . The end bays, which were projected forward, took the form of three-stage towers with doorways in the first stage, oriel windows in the second stage and pairs of narrow windows in the third stage; the towers were also surmounted by crenellated parapets. Internally, the principal rooms were the prison cells on
240-520: Was a builder and architect who worked on many buildings in Sleaford and South Lincolnshire, England. The architect and builder Charles Kirk was born on 10 March 1791 at Wigston Magna , Leicestershire. The Kirk family had long been connected with the building trade and Charles' father, William (1749-1823), was a builder and architect in Leicester. Charles Kirk came to Sleaford in 1829 to undertake
256-489: Was buried at Quarrington near Sleaford. Fortunately Kirk’s journal and account book have survived and are now held by the Lincolnshire Archives Office. The journal covers the period 1828-32. A particularly interesting entry is 30 October 1828: "At Sleaford and Lincoln. I was very much pleased with Smirk's [sic] County hall. There is an ancient grandeur about this modern edifice". This entry shows
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