Bank. c.1902. (1)
Deposited 22/07/1901. For Smith & Co. Proposed new banking premises, Stodman Street & Market Place. Drawings signed 'W. Campbell Jones, ARIBA'. (2)
A purpose-built bank constructed around 1902 on the site of the former home of Alderman Hercules Clay, destroyed during the siege of 1643. It was preceded by another bank building, present by 1885. The building was listed grade II in 1992. Occupying a prominent corner site, the building was designed in an exuberant Baroque Revival style and is built of red brick with abundant stone embellishments. Its stone-faced two-storey curved bay windows alternate with brick bays at first- and second-floor level on both elevations. A ceramic plaque on the Market Place elevation commemorates Clay’s house and its destruction. The grandeur and scale of this bank is indicative of the prosperity and importance of the town as a regional centre at the turn of the 20th century. (3)

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<2> Campbell Jones W, 22/07/1901, Proposed New Banking Premises (DC/NK 6/2 no. 791) (Plan). SNT1651.

<3> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.