Charles Reed (architect)
Charles Reed (later Charles Verelst) (1814 – 13 December 1859) was an English architect. He practised in Birkenhead, which was then in Cheshire and later in Merseyside.
Reed was an illegitimate son of Arthur Charles Verelst (1779–1843).[1] He was brought up by an uncle. When his father's brother William Verelst (1784–1851) died, Reed inherited the estate at Aston Hall, Yorkshire, and changed his surname to Verelst.[2]
During the 1840s and 1850s he worked for Sir William Jackson in laying out a housing estate in Claughton, and designing villas within that development.[3] Two roads in the estate, Charlesville and Reedville, are named after him.[4] In 1852–54 he was president of the Liverpool Architectural Society.[5] In addition to designing buildings locally, Reed also carried out works further afield, including in North Wales, the Lake District, and Lytham, Lancashire. He was a commissioner of Birkenhead for many years. He died in Claughton, Birkenhead.[2]
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References
Citations
- Foster, Joseph (1874). Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. London, The compiler. p. 215.
- "The Late Mr. Chas. Verelst", Liverpool Mercury, 14 December 1859, retrieved 10 November 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive
- Hartwell et al. (2011), pp. 133, 155
- Hyde, Don (2007), Simonton Literary Prize (PDF), Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust, retrieved 9 November 2014
- Past presidents, Liverpool Architectural Society, archived from the original on 1 April 2017, retrieved 9 November 2014
Sources
- Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10910-5