Synagogue
SYNAGOGUE, ST JAMES'S SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387877
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Synagogue
- Statutory Address:
- SYNAGOGUE, ST JAMES'S SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387877
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Synagogue
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYNAGOGUE, ST JAMES'S SQUARE
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:
- SYNAGOGUE, ST JAMES'S SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94554 22416
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SE ST JAMES'S SQUARE 630-1/13/840 (South side (off)) 05/05/72 Synagogue
GV II*
Synagogue. 1837-9. By WH Knight. Builder, Mr Hastings. Classical stucco facade with Roman Doric pilasters forming a vestigial terastyle portico with entablature and pediment. EXTERIOR: central entrance has double doors with Doric pilasters and dentil entablature; single elliptically-arched window over with eared architrave on feet and with keystone. Top lighting for the interior in the form of a glass dome. INTERIOR: entirely unaltered with grained woodwork. Fittings taken from a demolished synagogue in Leadenhall Street, London. An outstanding example of a small provincial English synagogue. (Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 32; Sladen T: Notes: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SO9455022420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 32
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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