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The Corn Exchange

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Castle Gate
Newark on Trent
England

This picture shows the rear of the building, sloping down to the River Trent. The Corn Exchange at Newark was designed by the London architect Henry Duesbury and opened on Wednesday 27th September 1848. The interior is 83' x 32', the floor being raised several feet above street level affording space for a suite of rooms below. The interior is lit by roof lights running much of the length of the building. The Corn Exchange continued in use as an agricultural marketplace until c.1914, since which time it has been used for a variety of purposes. At the time of writing (2003) it is a nite club. Architecturally, the front of the building (seen here) displays three arched recessed doorways, enriched with appropriate designs, each division having lunettes decorated with shells with corn springing from the centre. In the spandrills of the archways between the doors are shields charged with sheaves of corn. The capitals were expressly designed so as to be illustrative of the purposes of the building, consisting of ears of corn etc. The centre of the front is surmounted by a clock tower (although plans to install a clock have never been achieved). The turret is flanked by two figures in Austin stone, each 7ft high. They represent Agriculture and Commerce and are the work of the sculptor John Bell.

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