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Newark Market Place Looking North, c 1853

Market Place - Bridge Street
Newark on Trent
England

An engraving of Newark Market Place in the 1850s taken from Thomas Bailey's 'Annals of Nottinghamshire Vol.1'. Very littlehas changed about this view to today. Dominating the square is the Palladian Town Hall designed by John Carr of York. The first stone was laid for this fine Georgian building in 1773, but the building had been in use for some time before it was possible to acquire the land to build the wing to the left. The Palladian style of the building is similar to many other buildings designed by Carr. He was a designer with a fashionable reputation as well as being a Mayor of York in 1770. He had worked with two notable architects of the time, Lord Burlington and Robert Adam. The influence of these two can be seen in various rooms of the Town Hall and most notably in the Ballroom. Other notable buildings by Carr, such as Harewood House, Bootham Lunatic Asylum and the female Debtors Prison in York, and the Royal Crescent in Buxton also bore the stamp of their influence.

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