The School of Violin Making, Newark is housed in a Grade II listed building on Kirkgate, Newark on Trent which was built for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank in 1887.

[2] The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank first established a branch in Newark in 1835 branch but this was replaced by a new building designed by the architect Watson Fothergill and erected between 1886 and 1887.

It is in early Italian Gothic style and incorporates a manager's house.

[3] In 1891 the bank suffered an embarrassment when it was revealed that the manager of the Newark branch, Robert James Beard, had defrauded the bank of £25,000 (equivalent to £3,448,700 in 2023)[4] before drowning himself in the River Trent.

Around 1972 the building was surplus to requirements and was converted for the use of the School of Violin Making.