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Latitude: 53.0775 / 53°4'38"N
Longitude: -0.8118 / 0°48'42"W
OS Eastings: 479692
OS Northings: 354022
OS Grid: SK796540
Mapcode National: GBR CLM.5JT
Mapcode Global: WHFHH.HXM3
Plus Code: 9C5X35GQ+X7
Entry Name: Former Gilstrap Library
Listing Date: 6 March 1984
Last Amended: 13 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196056
English Heritage Legacy ID: 384968
ID on this website: 101196056
Location: Newark-on-Trent, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, NG24
County: Nottinghamshire
District: Newark and Sherwood
Town: Newark and Sherwood
Civil Parish: Newark
Built-Up Area: Newark-on-Trent
Traditional County: Nottinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Newark-upon-Trent with Coddington
Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham
Tagged with: Library building Public library Register office
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK7954SE CASTLEGATE
619-1/5/119 (North West side)
06/03/84 Former Gilstrap Library.
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE GATE
Gilstrap Library and Gatepiers)
GV II
Former public library, now disused. 1882 by William Henman of
Henman & Beddoes of Birmingham for William Gilstrap, a local
maltster who was mayor of Newark in 1888. Rear addition 1933,
in sympathetic style. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings
and plain tile roof with octagonal wooden lantern with leaded
ogee dome. Jacobean Revival style. Chamfered plinth, sill
band, moulded eaves, shouldered coped gables with ornate
finials, single gable stack. Chamfered, mullioned and
transomed windows throughout. Single storey plus attics and
basement. 3 bay triple gabled east front has a recessed
central bay containing a single storey crenellated porch
topped with crest and finial. Pointed doorway with shafts and
lintel inscribed "Gilstrap Library", flanked single 3 light
windows. Above and behind, a large 4 light window with
tympanum. To left, a crenellated square bay window with 5
lights. To right, a large 6 light window and above it a small
round window with trefoil tracery. 3 bay north front has a
central gabled square bay window, 6 lights, flanked by single
2 storey splayed bay windows with hipped roofs. West front has
to left a single gabled bay with with a 6 light window and
central addition, 1933. Single storey, 6 window range of 2
light windows, topped with parapet. Set back south bay has 2
windows.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 191).
Listing NGR: SK7969254022
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