Synagogue
SYNAGOGUE, OLD LANSDOWNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Synagogue
- Statutory Address:
- SYNAGOGUE, OLD LANSDOWNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Synagogue
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYNAGOGUE, OLD LANSDOWNE ROAD
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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:
- SYNAGOGUE, OLD LANSDOWNE 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:
- SJ8409091915
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/11/2014
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW OLD LANSDOWNE ROAD, Barlow Moor
698-1/8/505 (East side)
05/10/88 Synagogue
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEENSTON ROAD, West Didsbury
(East side) Synagogue)
II
Synagogue. 1925-6, by Delissa Joseph, under the supervision of Joseph Sunlight. Red brick with some Portland stone dressings (roof concealed) .Rectangular plan with projecting wings and porch. Two storeys, symmetrical; a centra1; porch of white stone, with pilasters, cornice and parapet, and recessed doorway with geometrical overlight, flanked by large rectangular 2-storey wings (stair turrets) each of which has a raised centre panel with a white stone doorway at ground floor, a round-headed window with radiating glazing bars and margin panes at 1st floor, and a brick cornice and parapet with upstands; and similar windows in the return sides. A lower 2-storey narthex links these 3 elements to the main vessel, which has pilastered 3-bay side walls with 3 windows on each floor of each bay, those to the upper floor arranged in Venetian form. Interior (as inspected in 1988): narthex with entrance vestibule flanked by cloakrooms and stairs; impressive main vessel with Ionic columns rising through galleries and supporting an entablature which returns to form an arch over the Ark; polished white marble steps and parapet to Ark, and tebah (or reading desk) of the same material; Austrian oak furnishings. Fine example of a synagogue of this period.
Listing NGR: SJ8409091915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454824
- 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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