48 Shakespeare Street and attached area railings
48 and attached area railings, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255018
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 48 Shakespeare Street and attached area railings
- Statutory Address:
- 48 and attached area railings, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255018
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 48 Shakespeare Street and attached area railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48 and attached area railings, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ
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:
- 48 and attached area railings, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57064 40406
Details
SK5740SW
646-1/14/549
NOTTINGHAM
SHAKESPEARE STREET (North side)
No 48
(Formerly Listed as: Synagogue and attached area railings, previously listed as: SHAKESPEARE STREET Synagogue)
12/07/72
GV
II
Wesleyan Reform chapel, synagogue at time of listing and attached railings. 1854. By T Simpson. Converted c1950. Stucco with hipped slate roof. Classical Revival style.
EXTERIOR: sill band and string course. Bays divided by giant Corinthian pilasters. Two storeys plus basement; 3 x 7 bays, plus rear addition. Tall round-arched windows.
Street front has a projecting centre with four fluted Corinthian pilasters supporting a dentillated cornice and pediment. Small flat-headed central window flanked by doors, and above, three windows. Left return has seven windows. To the rear, a flat roofed addition with double doors and three windows.
INTERIOR: plastered, largely unaltered. Dentillated cornice to cross beam ceiling with guilloche enrichment. Similar enrichment to window heads. All-round oval gallery on cast-iron Corinthian columns with elaborately moulded front and guilloche and vine trail bands. Clock at the rear. At the front, a granite and marble tabernacle, resited, with fluted pilasters and inscribed tablets under a segmental pediment. Niches with seats on each side, and beyond, renewed doors in C19 pedimented surrounds.
Fittings include original panelled benches throughout. Remaining fittings mid C20.
Memorials include two marble and slate war memorial tablets. Outside, across the front, four square panelled piers with cornice caps, with two wrought-iron gates and railing. Wrought-iron area railing to left return, with ashlar plinth.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 238).
Listing NGR: SK5706440406
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 238
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38828
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38827
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/85651
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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