Sessions House, Usk
The Sessions House at Usk, Wales, is a Victorian courthouse by Thomas Henry Wyatt of 1877.''The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire'', p. 593 It is a Grade II* listed building as of 4 January 1974. The court is of mauve sandstone with dressings of Bath stone. It is of five bays, with a cornice, parapet and balustraded terrace. Court Number 2 "survives little altered." "There is an impressive judge’s chair and the benches retain their original labels for Counsel, Solicitors, Reporters, Jury etc." A passage under the dock leads through to Usk Prison which stands next door. The Sessions House was the location for the trial of Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, a prominent suffragette, in 1913. The case of Josef Garcia, a Spanish seaman, was also reputedly heard there; he was eventually tried and convicted of the murder of William and Elizabeth Watkins of Llangybi and of their three youngest children Charlotte, Alice and Frederick at the Gloucestershire Assizes ...
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ...
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