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11th Jan 2024  15:31  by smile_clarenet

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22nd Apr 2023  18:30  by Earby Rambler

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Visited whilst on day out with Painterman61,1GL Bolt easily found.

Spire
1GL Bolt

22nd Apr 2023  18:30  by painterman61

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Huge spire and church also a 1 gl bolt on the front face.

Spire ©painterman61
Detail ©painterman61
Bolt ©painterman61

4th Oct 2022  09:00  by m13751

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Quite a nice spire visible around town

10th Jul 2021  13:05  by Trigbagger

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28th May 2021  17:11  by boblynoriho

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Newark Church ©boblynoriho

25th Aug 2018  07:07  by eon

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(972) Grade I listed St. Mary Magdalene Church. Can be seen from all over Newark, and beyond. As it was still early, parking close by was good. 1GL Bolt on the NW angle.

Newark Church Spire. ©eon
CBM + Bolt. ©eon

19th Apr 2018  23:03  by Ant1974

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23rd Jan 2018  16:09  by tigger4242

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21st Aug 2017  11:57  by Border Peat

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2nd Jun 2017  10:59  by asbown

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drive by

5th Jun 2016  09:22  by Dusty

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Church Spire

1st May 2016  16:35  by RogerTempleman

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Main purpose of visit was to see the OS 1GL bolt benchmark: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm23013

St Mary Magdalene's Church spire

14th Nov 2015  07:15  by ted

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Church dominates the town centre. Overcast morning; quick visit between trains.

Newark Church
Newark Church Spire

7th Sep 2015  13:52  by pkbathrooms

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St. Mary Magdalene Church with an impressive pa bolt for the benchmarkers. The present church is the third on this site. The Saxon church that stood on the site was in the manor of the Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva, but nothing of that structure now remains. Newark had been granted by the Earl to the monks of Stow. It is notable for the tower and the octagonal spire (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 dates from between 1384 and 1393, and the chancel 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 musket ball during the Civil War, although there is doubt locally as to the truth of the story. This hole is visible from some parts of the town centre. On the north wall hangs the oil painting The Raising of Lazarus by William Hilton RA. It was previously used as an altarpiece for the High Altar. It was heavily restored in the mid nineteenth century by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The reredos was added by Sir Ninian Comper. The reredos, given in 1937 in memory of William Bradley and his wife Elizabeth, was designed by Sir Ninian Comper. 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). At the beginning of the 19th century a new organ, by George Pike England, with three manuals, was provided by the trustees of the Magnus, Brown’s and Phyllypott’s charities at a cost of £1,300. It was opened on 11 November 1804 by Thomas Spofforth. It was placed on the west gallery from where the choir sang services. In 1814 the organ was re-located on the chancel screen and the choir returned to the chancel. In the 1850s the organ was rebuilt by Forster and Andrews of Hull, provided with a new case and again re-located, this time to its present position in the south choir aisle. In 1866 the organ was rebuilt and enlarged by Henry Willis. Willis virtually doubled the size of the instrument and its case, creating a large Romantic four-manual organ. The organ was again rebuilt by William Hill & Sons in 1910 at the expense of Mrs Becher Tidd Pratt and family, and subsequently by Hill, Norman and Beard in 1924, 1938, 1964 and 1978 when it was rebuilt and more voices added. It is now electrically operated by the Ellen Dynamic Transmission system which allows much greater mobility of the organ console, providing more direct contact with the congregation and the choir; it is the first four-manual instrument in the country to be so equipped, enabling a live performance to be electronically recorded and replayed automatically. The Choral Foundation was set up by Thomas Magnus in 1532 and was said to be the only existing pre-reformation choir outside cathedrals and Oxbridge colleges. Girl choristers were admitted into the main choir from 2008. As of February 2012, when choral services stopped following the dismissal of the Master of the Song School, the choir comprised two head choristers (one boy and one girl), four senior choristers, eight full choristers and a number of probationers, together with adult songmen who sang alto, tenor and bass parts.

3rd Jul 2015  11:25  by wrose

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The church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark still retains its spire and appears to be in good condition.

Intersected Station The spire of St Mary Magdalene Church, Newark.

22nd May 2015  19:20  by Particle

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22nd Sep 2014  11:38  by Bourne

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9th Mar 2014  08:03  by CJO

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St Mary Magdalene. Scaffolding at base of spire.

Newark Church Spire

7th Jul 2013  21:20  by peregrinus

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12th Jun 2004  15:58  by Brisey

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Station TF05/INT023, 3rd order, computed 1950 and maintained 1982. This is a retro log to suit my found photo, but it was not until July 2007 that I was at the church to log its cut mark with bolt. This spire is unmissable for anyone travelling along the A46 past Newark.

Viewed from Kirk Gate.