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The Church of St. Mary Magadalene, Newark-on-Trent is a parish church
Parish church

A parish church, in Christianity, is the local church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopalian church governance churches....
 in the Church of England
Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
 in Newark-on-Trent
Newark-on-Trent

Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England....
 in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is an Counties of England in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The county town is traditionally Nottingham, though the council is now based in West Bridgford, a suburb of Greater Nottingham ....
.

The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

Building
It is notable for the tower and the octagonal
Octagonal

Octagonal is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse, affectionately called the big O or 'Occy'. He was sired by Zabeel, out of the broodmare Eight Carat, a descendant of Man o' War who was ranked No....
 spire
Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from Anglo-Saxon language, so it is related to "spear," rather than the Romance languages and "spirit."...
 (236 ft. high), the highest in Nottinghamshire. The central piers remain from the previous church, dating from the 11th or 12th century.






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The Church of St. Mary Magadalene, Newark-on-Trent is a parish church
Parish church

A parish church, in Christianity, is the local church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopalian church governance churches....
 in the Church of England
Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
 in Newark-on-Trent
Newark-on-Trent

Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England....
 in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is an Counties of England in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The county town is traditionally Nottingham, though the council is now based in West Bridgford, a suburb of Greater Nottingham ....
.

The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

Building


It is notable for the tower and the octagonal
Octagonal

Octagonal is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse, affectionately called the big O or 'Occy'. He was sired by Zabeel, out of the broodmare Eight Carat, a descendant of Man o' War who was ranked No....
 spire
Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from Anglo-Saxon language, so it is related to "spear," rather than the Romance languages and "spirit."...
 (236 ft. high), the highest in Nottinghamshire. The central piers remain from the previous church, dating from the 11th or 12th century. The upper parts of the tower and spire were completed about 1350; the nave
Nave

In Romanesque architecture and Gothic architecture Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and Church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar....
 dates from between 1384 and 1393, and the chancel
Chancel

"Chancel" is an architectural term for the space around the altar at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse....
 from 1489.

The sanctuary is bounded on the south and north by two chantry chapels, the former of which has on one of its panels a remarkable painting from the Dance of Death. There are a few old monuments, and an exceedingly fine brass of the 14th century. There is a hole in the spire which was supposedly made by a cannon ball during the Civil War, although there is some doubt locally as to the truth of the story. This hole is visible from some parts of the town centre.

It was heavily restored in the mid nineteenth century by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The reredos was added by Sir Ninian Comper
Ninian Comper

Sir John Ninian Comper was a Scotland architect. He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his churches and their furnishings....
.

The Magnus Bequest


The church is supported by the Magnus Bequest, a charitable foundation created in the early 1530s by Thomas Magnus, who gave farms and lands in south Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire for a fourfold purpose:
  • The establishment and endowment of a free grammar school
  • The provision and endowment of a song school to ensure the maintenance of a high standard of worship in the parish
  • the provision of a sufficient sum to guarantee the efficient administration of the bequest and proper upkeep of the farms and lands from which the income was to be derived
  • the provision of occasional sums to be used for the general well-being of the church or the town (if there be any surplus after the first three objects had been fully accomplished).


Vicars of Newark

  • 1301 Walter Adam de Coddington
  • 1320 William de Lincoln
  • 1322 Rocelinus or Roslyn
  • 1333 John de Leverton
  • 1349 Thomas de Silkeston
  • 1359 Thomas de Westburgh
  • 1360 Roger de Leverton
  • 1367 William de Nesse
  • 1371 Roger de Leverton
  • 1375 John de Seggefield
  • 1378 John Sharp
  • 1421 John More
  • 1423 Thomas Marshe
  • 1425 Robert Crosslande
  • 1425 Nicholas Ferriby
  • 1445 John Burton
  • 1475 Nicholas Laughton
  • 1476 John Tristrop
  • 1479 John Smythe
  • 1521 Edward Fowke
  • 1521 Sampson Lorde
  • 1532 Henry Lytherlande
  • 1540/2 Robert Chapman
  • 1550 Christopher Sugden
  • 1554 John Taverham
  • 1559 Christopher Sugden
  • 1561 Edward Roodes
  • 1573 Nicholas Clayton
  • 1581 William Smythe
  • 1585 Lawrence Staunton
  • 1588 Edward Holden
  • 1596 William Pell
  • 1597 Bryan Vincent
  • 1601 Joseph Batts
  • 1612 Simon Jacks
  • 1618 Edmund Mason
  • 1628 Samuel Keemel
  • 1629 John Moseley
  • 1642 Henry Trewman
  • 1655 Samuel Hawkes
  • 1660 Thomas White
    Thomas White (bishop)

    Thomas White was bishop of Peterborough from 1685 to 1690....
    , afterwards Bishop of Peterborough
    Bishop of Peterborough

    The Bishop of Peterborough is the Ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Peterborough in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers the counties of Northamptonshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire and has its Episcopal see in the City of Peterborough, where the seat is located at the Peterborough Ca...
  • 1666 Richard Pearson
  • 1667 Henry Smith, Prebendary of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1702 Eli Stanfield
  • 1719 Bemard Wilson, D.D.
  • 1772 Hugh Wade
  • 1776 Charles Fynes
  • 1788 Davies Pennell
  • 1814 William Bartlett
  • 1835 John Garrett Bussell, B.A., Canon of Lincoln Cathedral
    Lincoln Cathedral

    Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England and seat of the Diocese of Lincoln in the Church of England....
  • 1874 Josiah Brown Pearson, LL.D. afterwards Bishop of Newcastle, Australia
    Bishop of Newcastle, Australia

    The present bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales in the Anglican Church of Australia is the Right Reverend Dr Brian Farran, who was enthroned on Friday, 24 June 2005 at Christ Church Cathedral , Newcastle, New South Wales....
  • 1880 Marshall Wild, M.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1908 Walter Paton Hindley, M.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1919 James Manders Walker, M.A., D.D., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1929 William Kay, DSM, M.C., M.A. Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
    , afterwards Provost
    Provost

    Provost may refer to:* Provost , an officer of local government, including the equivalent of a mayor in Scotland* Provost , a senior academic administrator...
     of Blackburn Cathedral
    Blackburn Cathedral

    Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Blackburn Saint Mary the Virgin, is a cathedral situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre, in Lancashire, England....
  • 1936 Alfred Parkinson, B.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1944 Lewis Mervyn Charles-Edwards, afterwards Bishop of Worcester
    Bishop of Worcester

    The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England.The diocese covers the county of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and parts of the City of Wolverhampton....
  • 1948 George William Clarkson, M.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
    , afterwards Bishop of Pontefract
    Bishop of Pontefract

    The Bishop of Pontefract is an Episcopal polity title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Wakefield, in the Province of York, England....
  • 1955 John H.D. Grinter, B.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1963 Eric J. Kingsnorth, F.I.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 1975 Benjamin H. Lewers, M.A., Rector from 1980, afterwards Provost of Derby Cathedral
    Derby Cathedral

    The Cathedral of All Saints , is a cathedral church in the City of Derby, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Derby, and with an area of around is the smallest Anglican cathedral in England....
  • 1981 George Miller McMillan Thomson
  • 1988 Roger Anthony John Hill, M.A., Canon of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
  • 2002 Vivian John Enever


Organ


The church possesses a large organ by Hill, Norman and Beard containing much pipework from previous instruments. A specification of the organ can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register at .

Masters of the Song School


The organist of the church is still known by the old title Master of the Song School. There have been appointments since at least 1532.
  • Robert Kirkby 1542 - 1574
  • Peter Newcombe c. 1590
  • Edward Manestie until 1595
  • George Fishburne 1596 - 1633
  • Thomas Kingstone 1633 - 1641
  • Thomas Heardson 1642 - 1648
  • John Hinton 1649 - 1668
  • John Barlow 1668 - 1682
  • William Farrow 1682 - ????
  • Thomas Farrow ???? - 1712
  • ? Spencer 1712 - 1731
  • ? Palmer 1731 - ????
  • Walter Cottingham 1741 - 1749
  • Richard Justice 1749 - 1751
  • Samuel Wise 1751 - 1754, latterly organist of Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
     and St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
    St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the oldest religious foundation in the City of Nottingham, England, and is also the largest church after the Nottingham Cathedral....
  • Lloyd Rayner 1754 - 1756
  • Bailey Marley 1757 - 1758
  • John Alcock 1758 - 1768
  • Thomas Jackson 1768 - 1781
  • John Calah 1782 - 1784
  • William Hunter 1784 - 1802
  • William Brydges 1802 - 1835
  • Edward Dearle 1835 - 1864
  • Samuel Reay 1864 - 1905 (formerly organist of St Thomas the Martyr, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne
    Church of St Thomas the Martyr

    The Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Newcastle upon Tyne, is one of the most prominent city centre landmarks, located close to both universities, the city hall and main shopping district in the Newcastle Haymarket....
  • William Thompson Wright, A.R.C.O., R.C.M 1903 - 1921 - ???? (formerly organist of St. Leonard's Church, Newark
    St. Leonard's Church, Newark

    St. Leonard's Church, Newark is a parish church in the Church of England in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire....
    )
  • Edward Francis Reginald Woolley 1930 - 1949 - 1974 (assistant organist at Lincoln Cathedral
    Lincoln Cathedral

    Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England and seat of the Diocese of Lincoln in the Church of England....
     1926 - 1930)
  • Robert Edward Gillman 1974 - 1980
  • Michael Overbury 1980 - 1986 (later organist of Worksop Priory
    Worksop Priory

    Worksop Priory is a Church of England parish church and former priory in the town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, part of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham....
    )
  • John Webster 1986 - 1992
  • Roger Bryan 1992 - 2006
  • ?

Assistant organists

  • Sydney Harry Franz Weale 1901 - 1903 (formerly assistant of St. David's Cathedral, afterwards assistant at Southwell Minster
    Southwell Minster

    Southwell Minster is a Minster and cathedral, in the England town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark-on-Trent and thirteen miles from Mansfield....
    )
  • Colin Ingleson FRCO, 1932 - 1954
  • Mike Manners 1982
  • Craig Nathan ARC0 1984
  • John Shooter ARCO 1985
  • Robert Sharpe 1989 - 1991
  • Malcolm Smith ca. 2008

See also


  • Archdeacon of Newark


Sources

  • The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire, Nikolaus Pevsner
    Nikolaus Pevsner

    Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, Order of the British Empire, was a German-born British scholar of art historian and, especially, of history of architecture....