The Former Nottingham and Notts Bank, 1887, in Watson Fothergill's usual idiosyncratic manner. Tower reduced in height 1957. The manager's house … forms part of the composition. Now the Newark Technical College school of violin-making. (1)
This striking edifice was constructed in 1887 as a branch of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank to the designs of Watson Fothergill. Built of red brick with blue brick, terracotta and stone dressings, it is of two and three storeys with a four-stage tower. The style is broadly Italian Gothic Revival…Externally there is a clear distinction between the church-like two-storey banking hall and the former bank manager’s house. In 1957 the tower was reduced in height and given a pyramidal roof; historic photographs show a more steeply pitched roof that echoed the steeple of the Church of St Mary Magdalene. Around 1975 the building was converted into a school for violin making. It was listed grade II in 1992. (2)

Listed buildings slides, 3 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 195 (Monograph). SNT4.

<2> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.