Charles Edge (architect)

Charles Edge (13 October 1800 – 21 July 1867) was a British architect based in Birmingham.

He studied architecture in London for 5 years, and set himself up in practice in Bennetts Hill, Birmingham in 1826.

[2] After the failure of the contractors building Birmingham Town Hall, Edge was employed to complete the building.

[clarification needed] His son, Charles Allerton Edge became an architect working with his father.

[3] Edge married Ellen Allerton (1810–1871), second daughter of Thomas Allarton of Lozells, Birmingham, on 30 October 1833 in Aston, Birmingham.

6 Bennetts Hill of 1827
Birmingham Market Hall of 1832–35
Powell's Gun Shop, 1861