Manchester Jewish Museum
MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM, 190, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208472
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester Jewish Museum
- Statutory Address:
- MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM, 190, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/01613/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208472
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester Jewish Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM, 190, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM, 190, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84317 99904
Details
SJ8499
698-1/15/560
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
CHEETHAM HILL ROAD,Cheetham (East side)
No.190 Manchester Jewish Museum(Formerly Listed as:CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham(East side)No.190 New Synagogue)
GII*
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue,now museum.1889,by Edward Salomons;altered.Red brick with sandstone dressings,slate roofs.T-shaped plan formed by rectangular main vessel at right-angles to street,with flanking wings to the gabled facade.Plain building but with elaborate Spanish and Saracenic motifs in the facade.Two storeys and three bays,symmetrical,the centre breaking forwards slightly;with plinth,diaper bands,etc.The centre has a large two-centred arched doorway with shafts,polychrome-banded extrados,recessed door with banded lintel,etc.,flanked by small triangular-headed lancet windows,and at first floor an arcaded five-light window with shafts,arched lights with linked segmental hoodmoulds,and sill- and head-bands;a cinquefoil motif over the centre,and dentilled coping with apex finial.The side wings,both gabled at right-angles to the main axis and that to the right containing a staircase,have ornamented first-floor bands,three-light windows at ground floor and two-light windows above,and gable copings with apex finials.The side walls of the main range have low plain segmental-headed windows at ground floor and circular windows above,mostly with stained glass.Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8431799904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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