Newark School of Violin Making
| Newark School of Violin Making | |
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 Newark School of Violin Making | |
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General information | |
| Location | Market Place, Newark on Trent |
| Coordinates | 53°04′39″N 00°48′33″W / 53.07750°N 0.80917°W |
Construction started | 1886 |
Completed | 1887 |
| Cost | £3817 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Fothergill Watson |
| Designations | Grade II listed[1] |
The Newark School of Violin Making is housed in a Grade II listed building on Kirkgate, Newark on Trent which was built for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank in 1887.[2]
History
[edit]The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank first established a branch in Newark in 1835 branch but this was replaced by a new building designed by the architect Watson Fothergill and erected between 1886 and 1887. It is in early Italian Gothic style and incorporates a manager's house.[3] In 1891 the bank suffered an embarrassment when it was revealed that the manager of the Newark branch, Robert James Beard, had defrauded the bank of £25,000 (equivalent to £2,746,300 in 2025)[4] before drowning himself in the River Trent. The bank covered the loss from its reserves.[5]
It became the London, County, Westminster & Parr's Bank in 1919. The tower was reduced in height in 1957.
School of Violin Making
[edit]Around 1972 the building was surplus to requirements and was converted for the use of the School of Violin Making. This is now part of Lincoln College, Lincolnshire.[6]
See also
[edit]References
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- ↑ Historic England. "School of Violin Making (Grade II) (1229217)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ↑ Turner, Darren. Fothergill, A Catalogue of the Works of Watson Fothergill, Architect. Blurb. p. 91.
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth; Hartwell, Clare (2020). The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire. Yale University Press. p. 365. ISBN 9780300247831.
- ↑ UK Consumer Price Index inflation figures from 1209–2024 based on data from "Inflation calculator". Bank of England. London. 18 February 2026. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Large Defalcation by a Bank Manager". Lancashire Evening Post. England. 20 January 1891. Retrieved 1 April 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "BA (Hons) Musical Instrument Craft (Violin Making and Repair)". Lincoln College. Lincoln College. Retrieved 27 December 2020.