Daybrook

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Daybrook
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St. Paul’s Church
Daybrook is located in Nottinghamshire
Daybrook
Daybrook
 Daybrook shown within Nottinghamshire
Population 4,997 
District Gedling
Shire county Nottinghamshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district NG5
Dialling code 0115
Police Nottinghamshire
Fire Nottinghamshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Gedling
List of places
UK
England
Nottinghamshire

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Daybrook is a suburb of Arnold, Nottinghamshire. The area is located just outside the city of Nottingham but inside the conurbation of Greater Nottingham. It lies next to the areas of Arnold town centre, Sherwood, Woodthorpe, Redhill and Bestwood.

Landmarks

Church of St. Paul

The area is dominated by the spire and tower of St. Paul’s Church which rise to a height of 150 feet (46 m).[1] The church was designed 1892–1896 by John Loughborough Pearson[2][3] and its construction started in May 1893. In December 1895 it was completed—except for the spire and tower,[3] which were added in 1897.[1] The church, located on Mansfield Road, was consecrated in February 1896 in honour of Paul the Apostle[3] and is now a Grade II* listed building.[4][5]

Sir John Robinson’s Almshouses

Adjacent to St. Paul’s Church are the Sir John Robinson Almshouses (commonly known as the ‘Daybrook Almshouses’), Mansfield Road. Built in 1899 in Daybrook by local businessman and philanthropist Sir John Robinson, they are now Grade II listed.[5][6]

Home Brewery

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Main article: Arnold, Nottinghamshire § Home Brewery
A long, tall three-storey building (with a very tall central square tower providing a fourth storey) made of brown brick.
The Home Brewery office building

The ‘Home Ales’ brewery was founded in 1875 by the aforementioned John Robinson[7] and soon became famous for its Robin Hood logo on beermats. In 1986 the brewery (as well as the 450 public houses it owned) was purchased by Scottish & Newcastle for £123million. Scottish & Newcastle gradually ran down production, resulting in the eventual closure of the Daybrook building in 1996.

Dating from 1936,[8] the current Home Ales building is now officially known as ‘Sir John Robinson House’[9] and houses more than 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) worth[9] of county council offices. The Grade II listed building's[5][10][11] illuminated ‘Home of the Best Ales’ sign was altered to remove the word ‘Ales’ and to include the logo of Nottinghamshire County Council. The three-storey[lower-alpha 1] building has an unusual ‘putti frieze’ by sculptor Charles Doman along the front wall depicting groups of putti brewing beer.[12] The decorative ironwork gates and railings are contemporaneous[12] and form part of the listed building.[5][11]

Nottinghamshire County Council has been advertising the building for sale, in an effort to save money,[9] since February 2012.[13][14] This information is correct as of 8 June 2014.

Daybrook Baptist Church

The present-day building of Daybrook Baptist Church was completed in 1912[citation needed] and is located on Mansfield Road.[15]

References

Footnotes
  1. ↑ excluding the “very tall square tower”[11] which provides a fourth storey,[9] and including the “ancillary lower ground floor”[9]
Notes
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