SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE

SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE, HENEAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379853
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE
Statutory Address:: SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE, HENEAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379853
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE
Statutory Address 1:: SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE, HENEAGE ROAD

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Location

Statutory Address:: SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE, HENEAGE ROAD

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District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 27786 09644

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GRIMSBY

TA2709NE HENEAGE ROAD 699-1/18/41 (West side) Sir Moses Montefiore Synagogue

GV II

Synagogue. 1885-8, with later C19 entrance arch adjoining to right; ark extension to east end of 1934-5, and secondary synagogue and schoolroom addition to rear (now meeting hall) of 1933. Red brick with stone details; C20 ark extension in brick. Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan, with entrance in right return. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 by 5 bays, gable facing. 3-bay front has central section breaking forward. Moulded plinth. Drip course. Central flat-roofed single-story ark extension, rectangular on plan, has angle pilasters in patterned brick capped with small domes, a small ventilator to the front in a patterned brick surround, with a marble tablet below bearing a First World War memorial inscription. Flanking sections of main range each have an inscribed stone tablet, that to left recording foundation stone laid by FD Mocatta of London, July 22nd 1885, that to right in Hebrew and English, commemorating the 1935 jubilee. Pair of round-headed ground-floor windows with hoodmoulds. Modillioned brick first-floor band with chamfered top course. First floor has large central oculus in moulded ashlar reveal with hoodmould, flanked by narrow slit-lights beneath arched hoodmoulds. Above are six narrow recessed panels terminating in a Lombardy frieze, the central 4 panels with blind slit-lights. Central bay is capped wth a brick and ashlar triangular pediment with a dentilled and moulded cornice, the tympanum containing a central stone panel with an open book carved in relief beneath a round arch and an ashlar Lombardy frieze. Side bays have twin round-arched windows with fluted central shafts with moulded capitals, hoodmoulds and recessed fluted ashlar apron panels; ashlar Lombardy friezes, coped gable. Archway attached to ground-floor right has chamfered plinth, chamfered round arch with ashlar hoodmould beneath stone-coped gable; C20 wrought-iron gate. Right return of main range has segmental-arched 2-light windows, door with overlight to far right; pair of C20 inscribed marble memorial tablets. Low parapet, end stack to left. Single-storey hipped secondary synagogue has door to left, 4 segmental-headed 2-light windows, series of inscribed foundation stones. Left return of main C19 range has 4 windows

to each floor with 2 round-arched lights in wooden frames, stone sills and chamfered lintels; small casements to left. INTERIOR: C19 synagogue has womens' balcony around 3 sides, carried on shaped brackets and cast-iron columns with Corinthian-style capitals. Panelled balcony front, panelled dado. Sets of original C19 pews, those to balcony with shaped arms on slender turned supports. Panelled plaster ceiling with moulded cornices, 3 ornate roof vents. Central aisle has wooden dais or bemah of 1934 with panelled sides, carved inscriptions and lamps at the corners. Polished granite surround to 1934 ark recess with panelled interior. East windows with moulded plaster reveals, other windows with wooden architraves and bracketed sills. STAINED GLASS: covering a range of dates and designs (some pictorial), and many with memorial inscriptions. The east gable-end windows and the ground-floor north windows mostly from the late C19-early C20, those on the south side and north side first-floor from the 1920s and later. The circular east window, in memory of Mrs Szapira of Boston, depicts the commandment tablets supported by a lion and unicorn. HISTORY: the only Victorian synagogue in Lincolnshire and South Humberside, and one of few of this period in the country to survive so intact. Together with its accompanying bath-house (qv) this synagogue reflects the former significance of Grimsby's Jewish community and the town's prominence in the movement of Jews from Eastern Europe to Britain and America. In the late C19 Grimsby was the third largest centre (after London and Hull) for Jewish immigration, with over 100,000 landing here in the peak years between 1881 and 1914. Forms part of a notable group of Victorian and Edwardian educational and religious buildings built on land provided by the Heneage Estate; others surviving here include St Mary's R.C. church, the Holme Hill School Education Centre, the Art College and the Education Office in Eleanor Street (qv). Anglican and Primitive Methodist churches also once stood nearby. (Humberside Leisure Services Heritage Publications: Gerlis D and L: The Story of the Grimsby Jewish Community: Hull: 1986-; Ambler R W: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 24-5, 48).

Listing NGR: TA2778609644

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Sources

Books and journals
Gerlis, D, L, , The Story of the Grimsby Jewish Community, (1986)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/40194
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/40196

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.