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The School of Violin Making, Newark is housed in a
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
building on Kirkgate,
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 ...
which was built for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank in 1887.


History

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. 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 () before drowning himself in the River Trent. The bank covered the loss from its reserves. It became the London, County, Westminster & Parr's Bank in 1919. The tower was reduced in height in 1957.


School of Violin Making

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.


See also

* Listed buildings in Newark-on-Trent


References

{{Reflist Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire Buildings and structures completed in 1887 Buildings and structures in Newark-on-Trent Bowed string instrument makers