page_title: Kirk and Parry
section_title: Work as Building Contractors
hierarchical_section_title: Kirk and Parry / Work as Building Contractors
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum At Wanstead Hospital. Wikidata has entry Q17553287 with data related to this item.This is a photo of listed building number 1200737.
context_page_description: Kirk and Parry were an architectural and civil engineering practice in Sleaford that specialised in the design of public buildings, housing and the construction of Railways. The practice was initially founded by Charles Kirk. Thomas Parry, was an articled clerk to Charles Kirk. Parry married Henrietta, daughter of Charles Kirk in 1841 and formed a partnership with Charles Kirk. Following the death of Charles Kirk in 1847, his son, Charles Kirk, then became a partner with Thomas Parry. Charles Kirk Junior was the architect in the practice and Parry probably acted as an administrator. Thomas Parry was a Liberal Party politician from who sat in the House of Commons for three short periods between 1865 and 1874. By 1903 the firm had changed its name to Kirk, Knight and Co.
context_section_description: By the 1850s Kirk and Parry had become a major firm of Building Contractors and by the mid-1860 one of the largest building and contracting firms in England. Sir John Summersonin his analysis of contracting firms working in London, places them in the top seven largest firms in the 1860s,  on the basis of the number of contracts they won. These included a printing works for the Printing and Publishing Company in Smithfield and the Merchant's Seaman's Orphanage, which became Wanstead Hospital. Other  projects for which they were responsible were Lincoln Prison (1869-72), Whitehaven Docks (1865) and the Scarborough Aquarium (1878)
caption: Wanstead Hospital. Architect G Somers Clarke. Building contractors Kirk and Parry
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