Charles Reeves (architect)
Charles Reeves (1815 – 6 December 1866) was a British architect, particularly of police stations and county courts.
Life[edit]
Reeves was born in 1815 in Fordingbridge, Hampshire. He studied under Thomas Loader of Romsey in Hampshire, and Richard Suter (father of Richard George Suter[1]) and Annesley Voysey of London. From 1843 he was architect and surveyor to the Metropolitan Police, designing and superintending forty-four new police stations. In 1847 he also became architect to the county courts in England and Wales, established the previous year; he designed and superintended sixty-four new courts across the country.[2][3]
He maintained a practice in London with Henry Annesley Voysey from 1847 to 1852, and with Lewis G. Butcher from 1853. His private commissions included Holy Trinity Church at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.[2][3][4]
His style was mostly a version of Italianate architecture. A medal was awarded to Reeves for services in connection with the exhibitions of 1851 and 1862. He died in Halterworth, Romsey in 1866.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ Page 736 Brodie, Antonia. Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z), accessed 6 October 2015.
- ^ a b c Graham, Clare. "Reeves, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23305. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c Dodgson, Campbell (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 415.
- ^ Church of Holy Trinity, The Gorge British Listed Buildings, accessed 6 October 2015.
External links[edit]
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