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Christ Church, Newark is a
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Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent or Newark () is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road bypasses th ...
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Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
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History

The church was built in 1836 to 1837 by the architect J. D. Paine. It was evangelical in foundation, and the patronage was under the
Church Pastoral Aid Society The Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS) is an Anglican evangelical mission agency. It was founded in 1836. History of the Society The CPAS was founded in 1836 in the midst of the social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution to take 'the gospel t ...
. As Newark expanded, a new church was built to replace it in 1956 at the junction of Boundary Road and Holden Crescent. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Southwell in 1958.


Organ

The church has a two-manual organ by Cousins of Lincoln. A specification of the organ can be found on th
National Pipe Organ Register


List of organists

*James Harston 1890 - ca. 1912Dictionary of Organs and Organists. First Edition. 1912. p.285 (formerly organist of St. Wilfrid's Church, South Muskham).


Sources

{{Deanery of Newark and Southwell churches
Newark on Trent Newark-on-Trent or Newark () is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road bypasses the town on the line of th ...
Churches completed in 1837 20th-century Church of England church buildings Churches completed in 1956 Buildings and structures in Newark-on-Trent