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Sessions House
A sessions house in the United Kingdom was historically a courthouse that served as a dedicated court of quarter sessions, where criminal trials were held four times a year on quarter days. Sessions houses were also used for other purposes to do with the administration of justice, for example as a venue for the Court of Assize, courts of assize (assizes). The courts of quarter sessions and assize, which did not necessarily sit in dedicated premises, were replaced in England by a permanent Crown Court by the Courts Act 1971, and in 1975 in Scotland by other courts. Several buildings formerly used as sessions houses are still named "Sessions House"; some are still used for the administration of justice (e.g., London Sessions House, now the Old Bailey, Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey), while others have different uses. Some are listed buildings of architectural importance. An incomplete list of English and Welsh sessions houses: *Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Session House Preston
Session may refer to: Bureaucracy and law *Session (parliamentary procedure) *Session (Presbyterian), a governing body in Presbyterian polity *Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland *Executive session, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session *Legislative session Computing *Session (computer science), a semi-permanent interactive information exchange between communicating devices *Session (web analytics), in web analytics, measuring a continuous period of browsing of a website by a particular user *Session, a group of process groups in POSIX-conformant operating systems * CD sessions, how data is laid out on an optical disc *Login session Music Contexts *Jam session, where musicians gather and play *Pub session, playing music in a public house *Recording session, where musicians record music together Works * ''Session'' (Ned's Atomic Dustbin album), a 2004 album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin *"Session", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from their 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Sessions House, Liverpool
The County Sessions House is a former courthouse in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It stands at the bottom of Islington, to the east of the Walker Art Gallery, which now occupies the building. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History The courthouse was commissioned to replace local judicial facilities at a courthouse in Basnett Street and at the Kirkdale Sessions House. Following the implementation of the Prison Act 1877 which transferred responsibility for Kirkdale Prison to the state it became necessary the establish a new sessions house: the site selected was a row of residential properties to the east of the Walker Art Gallery. The new building was designed by the Liverpool architects F & G Holme in the Neoclassical style and intended to accommodate the quarter sessions of the West Derby Hundred of the historic county of Lancashire: it was built between 1882 and 1884. The building closed as a judicial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House (Painesville, Ohio)
Sessions House (also called the "Tuscan House") is a historic Italianate style house at 157 Mentor Avenue in Painesville, Ohio. Constructed in Italianate style in 1873 for the widow of one of the region's pioneers,Painesville Walking Tour the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1973. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Italianate architecture in Ohio Houses completed in 1870 Houses in Lake County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Ohio {{LakeCountyOH-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House, Market Square, Roscommon
Sessions may refer to: * Sessions (surname), a surname * Sessions (clothing company), an American apparel company * Sessions Clock Company, an American clock manufacturer in the early 20th century Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Sessions'' (film), a 2012 American independent drama film based on the true story of Mark O'Brien * ''Sessions'', a short-lived 1991 HBO series produced by Billy Crystal, starring Elliott Gould and Michael McKean * ''Sessions'' (Beatles album), an unreleased compilation album by The Beatles * Sessions (Fred Neil album) * ''Sessions'' (compilation series), a series of DJ mix albums released by Ministry of Sound * ''Sessions'' (Descendents EP), a 1997 EP by the punk rock band the Descendents * ''Sessions'' (This Condition EP) * ''The Sessions'' (album), a 1995 compilation album by English punk/rock music group the Stranglers * Sessions@AOL, a special avenue of programming conducted by AOL Music * The Sessions Band The Sessions Band is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House, Dublin
Green Street Courthouse () is a courthouse between Green Street and Halston Street in the Smithfield area of Dublin, Ireland. It was the site of many widely discussed criminal trials from 1797 until 2010, when the Criminal Courts of Justice building opened. Under British rule The Dublin City Sessions House, which was designed in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1797, on part of the "Little Green", which had been owned by St. Mary's Abbey before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and was later used as a graveyard. The previous sessions house was the Tholsel, beside the Church of St. Nicholas Within. The architect of the new Sessions House is believed to have been Whitmore Davis. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Smithfield; the central section featured a large hexastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a modillioned pediment. The building held different courts, including the Dublin Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesex Sessions House
The former Middlesex Sessions House or the Old Sessions House is a large building on Clerkenwell Green in the London Borough of Islington in London, England, built in 1780 as the courthouse for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The building was commissioned to replace Hicks Hall as the courthouse for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions: Hicks Hall had opened in 1612 and had stepped into many of the lesser functions of the Old Bailey before being demolished in 1782. The Sessions House was designed by Thomas Rogers in the classical style and completed in 1782. It served as the main judicial and administrative centre of Middlesex until county councils were created for Middlesex and London in 1889. At that point the Middlesex county leaders had no further use for the Sessions House because it was physically in the County of London rather than in Middlesex. Administrative matters relating to the county of Middlesex were immediately transferred to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House, Preston
The Sessions House is a courthouse in Harris Street, Preston, Lancashire, England. The courthouse, which continues to be used for judicial purposes as well as being used as administrative offices for His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, is a Grade II* listed building. History The building was commissioned to replace the old Sessions House in Stanley Street. After deciding that the old Sessions House was inadequate for their needs, the justices decided to procure a new building: the site selected was some open land opposite the Harris Museum. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 2 February 1900. It was designed by the Manchester architect, Henry Littler, in the Edwardian Baroque style, constructed of sandstone by David Tullis and Sons and opened on 18 June 1904. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of thirteen bays facing Harris Street. The central section featured a round-headed doorway with a balcony above; there was a round-headed window ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House, Northampton
The Sessions House is a former judicial building on George Row in Northampton, England. The Sessions House, which is currently used as a tourist information centre, is a Grade I listed building. The building is adjacent to County Hall, the meeting place of Northamptonshire County Council. History The Sessions House was built on the site of an early 17th century public house known as "''The Bell''". The property was acquired for the county and converted into a gaol in 1634.Giggins 2012, p. 10 A Quaker, John Maidwell, was imprisoned in the cells of the gaol in 1664 for not swearing allegiance to King Charles II.Giggins 2012, p. 11 The gaol was destroyed in the Great Fire of Northampton in September 1675 and the Sessions House, which was designed by Henry Bell of King's Lynn in the Renaissance style using a plan by Sir Roger Norwich, became one of the first facilities built after the Great Fire when it was completed in 1678. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessions House, Beverley
The Sessions House was a municipal facility at New Walk in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The first sessions house in Beverley was located in a building at Hall Garth on a site which had previously accommodated the archbishop's manor house. In the early 19th century the justices decided to allow the lease on the building at Hall Garth to expire and, instead, chose to procure a new sessions house in New Walk. A prison facility or "house of correction", which could accommodate around 60 prisoners at a time, had already been built in Norfolk Street, to the rear of the proposed site for the sessions house, in 1810. The new building, which was designed by Watson and Pritchett in the classical style, was completed in 1814. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto New Walk; the central section of three bays featured a two-storey tetrastyle portico with full height Ionic order columns; the doorway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
