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Ellerslie Close, NEWARK, NG24 1LL

Empty, derelict and vandalised grade II listed school buildings at the former Mount School

Newarks new £7m Police Station which was opened on October the 31st 2006 by the Duke of Kent. It replaces the old station built in 1870 Image

Date from about 1800 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1196063

Belltower and wing dated 1877 at The Mount School, a redundant Grade II listed building, now on Newark & Sherwood Buildings at Risk register

Former coach house and cottage from c.1800, now two dwellings. The coach access was from the yard at the rear of the building which accounts for the large blank wall. Listed Grade II.

Replaced by new buildings in Balderton.

The ancient stone wall on the left encloses what was once an Austin Friary and is now a house which Pevsner describes as "a rambling stone building, C17 in its earliest parts" (see Lambert's Image]). Appleton Gate consists mainly of 18th- and early 19th-century houses and shops, increasingly grand the nearer the centre of the town. The icy pavements were perilous just after 8.30 after a fortnight of snow and low temperatures; I had just come a cropper, but with no damage to wrist, hip or camera.

The absence of leaves on these two trees allows a mural on the wall of No.43, Appletongate to be seen. The mural, by Bill Ming, was painted in 1985-6 and celebrates Newark's heritage as a malting and brewing centre. It is painted on the side of a shop at the entrance to the public car park on Appletongate. The Palace Theatre lies 100 metres or so ahead. The artist, Bill Ming, was born in Bermuda in 1944 and he settled in the UK in 1971 to develop a career in art. He studied at Mansfield College of Art and this must have been one of his earliest commissions. Later he became the 1st Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow at John Moores University Liverpool and he also taught at Leicester Polytechnic and Loughborough College. In 1998 he taught for the Soweto's School's Project in South Africa. For a photo of the artist and more about his career, see: www.bernews.com/2011/03/new-bill-ming-sculpture-to-be-unveiled

The driveway entrance to a couple of residential properties on the site of the former Newark Friary. The houses and the surrounding walls are constructed of light grey stone. In 1507 a group of Grey Friars, a.k.a. "Observant Friars" of the Franciscan Order, began to serve the community from this site. The site included "gardens and/or an orchard" and it is thought that Friary Gardens (a public park on the photographer's left albeit not visible here) may have been part of the Friary. Apparently there is no longer any trace of the friary in the grounds of these residential properties, except insofar as some of the stones may have been used when a house was first built here post-1542 when the site, the churchyard and several associated gardens were "granted to Richard Andrewes (sic) and Nicholas Temple".