The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255639
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
- Statutory Address:
- THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255639
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CHAPELTOWN 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:
- THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30828 35317
Details
LEEDS
SE33NW CHAPELTOWN ROAD 714-1/7/94 (East side) 22/11/91 The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
GV II
Synagogue, now premises of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. 1929-32. By J Stanley Wright of Albion Street, Leeds. Red/brown brick, stretcher bond, Portland stone entrance facade, concrete block foundation courses and side door surrounds, copper domes to roof, wrought-iron grilles. Rectangular plan, main entrance on west side and narrower entrances on north and south; a massive domed structure with lower dome and chimney at east end and small domes above the west entrance, the tall triple round-arched windows in massive buttresses rising above the eaves of the central dome. Front: 9 steps to portico with stone vases and paired columns with tulip capitals; rear: low flat-roofed offices, extension added; left return: paired panelled doors, upper panel glazed and covered by an iron grille, overlight with scrolled iron grille, flanking foundation stones; right return similar. Windows boarded but most retain original stained glass with Star of David motif. INTERIOR: the entrance area has black and white stone floor and stairs rising through a double-arched stone screen on left and right; the main auditorium retains much original seating, marble surround to recesses for the Ark of the Covenant, central Star of David with pendant light (?bronze), stone piers supporting gallery, octagonal heating grilles. Original seating also in the gallery. The architect had a military background, possibly serving in Palestine. His practice moved from Leeds to Boston Spa. The synagogue was built in the main area of Jewish settlement in Leeds until the 1960s; it closed in 1985 and some of the fittings were removed to the new synagogue in Shadwell Lane, Leeds 17 (not included). (Freedman, M of Jewish Historical Society: Letter of 8 April 1991).
Listing NGR: SE3082835317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465814
- 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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