Kirk and Parry were an architectural and civil engineering practice in Sleaford that specialised in the design of public buildings, housing and the construction of Railways.

Thomas Parry was a Liberal Party politician from who sat in the House of Commons for three short periods between 1865 and 1874.

[2] ‘’The Martello tower, off the Spit Isle of Grain, erected by Messrs. Kirk and Parry, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, is completed....(for)... the Ordnance authority at Sheerness.

The peculiar construction of this tower gives it the facility of firing the guns (which are to be of the largest calibre) on traversing centre pivots, ...(into the).....Thames and Medway ...this tower forms a crossfire with the Sheerness Battery guns, sufficient to sink any ships attempting to pass.

[15] Other projects for which they were responsible were Lincoln Prison (1869-72), Whitehaven Docks (1865) and the Scarborough Aquarium (1878) It is noted that Kirk and Parry were active as railway contractors in the Derby, Leeds, Liverpool and London areas.