Sandys Row Synagogue

SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE, SANDYS ROW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1260323
Date first listed:
21-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Sandys Row Synagogue
Statutory Address:
SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE, SANDYS ROW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1260323
Date first listed:
21-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Sandys Row Synagogue
Statutory Address 1:
SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE, SANDYS ROW

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE, SANDYS ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33462 81681

Details

SANDYS ROW 1. 4431 TQ 3381 14/10,000 Sandys Row Synagogue II

2. Synagogue, formerly French Protestant Church. Opened 1766, altered C19 and C20. Brick. Symmetrical facade of 3 storeys. 3 main bays. Central semicircular headed entrance. Semicircular headed sashed windows, in triplets to outer bays. Parapet. Interior retaining C18 gallery with Doric columns and triglyph frieze with guttae. Arched sashed windows at gallery level, retaining glazing bars. Modillion cornice and coved ceiling. Later apse with flanking pilasters, etc. Survey of London Vol. 27. pp. 36-7.

Listing NGR: TQ3345481684

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206478
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Sources

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Survey of London in Survey of London - Spitalfields and Mile End New Town Parishes of Christ Church and All Saints and the liberties of Norton Folgate and the Old Artillery Ground:Volume 27, Vol. 27, (1957), 36-7

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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