SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING

SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING, 43, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229217
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING, 43, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229217
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING, 43, KIRKGATE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SCHOOL OF VIOLIN MAKING, 43, KIRKGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Newark
National Grid Reference:: SK 79888 53990

Details

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE KIRKGATE 619-1/8/187 (North East side) No.43 School of Violin Making

GV II

Former bank and manager's house, now school of violin making. Dated 1887. By Watson Fothergill for the Nottingham & Notts Bank. Tower reduced in height, 1957. Converted c1975. Red brick, with blue brick, terracotta and stone dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Single ridge and 2 side wall stacks, the latter with twisted double shafts. Italian Gothic Revival style. Rockfaced chamfered plinth. 2 and 3 storeys plus 4-stage tower. In the centre, a 2 storey banking hall with plinth, string courses, stepped pilasters and coped balustrade, which extends to the right to form a balcony to the tower. 3 full height transomed windows with shafts and panel tracery. Tower, to right, has string courses and pyramidal roof with bracketed eaves on corbels. Ground floor has a round headed recess with hood mould containing 2 doors with trumeau and double flanking shafts, and graduated triple light above them. Above, a shouldered plain sash and above again, 2 round headed plain sashes opening onto the balcony. Bell stage has on each side a round headed recess with hood mould, containing 3 round headed plain sashes with shafts. To left, manager's house and offices. Plinth, string courses, modillion eaves cornice, cogged eaves and iron ridge crests. 3 storeys; 3 window range with central cross mullioned window flanked by single square oriels cross mullioned windows, that to the right being smaller and simpler. Above, 3 double and one triple round headed plain sashes with shafts on corbels. Central shouldered 2 leaf door with mullioned overlight, flanked to left by a 3-light shouldered plain sash with shafts, and to right by a pair of similar 2-light windows. The shafts form supports to the oriel above each window. To the far left, an entry door with tiled canopy and stone lintel. Interior has polychrome banking hall with coved panelled ceiling on corbels. Entrance side has a central polychrome stone fireplace with tiled overmantel on brackets. To left, a moulded round headed double recess with granite pier, and to right, a segment headed doorway with half-glazed doors. Opposite end has 3 doorways and to right a stone and glazed brick fireplace inscribed "Estd. 1834". On either side, 3 tall windows. Open well dogleg stair with moulded handrail and unusual turned, cruciform balusters. Corridors on each floor have pedimented doorcases. Main first floor offices have cornices and more elaborate doorcases. Single Tudor arched tiled fireplace. This building is a virtually intact example of the idiosyncratic work of Watson Fothergill. (Buildings of England: E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 195).

Listing NGR: SK7988853990

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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 195

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.