Manchester Jewish Museum, Manchester
Description: Manchester Jewish Museum
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 3 October 1974
English Heritage Building ID: 387990
OS Grid Reference: SJ8431799904
OS Grid Coordinates: 384317, 399904
Latitude/Longitude: 53.4956, -2.2379
Location: Melloy Place, Manchester, Greater Manchester M8 8LW
Locality: Manchester
County: Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: M8 8LW
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Listing Text
MANCHESTER
SJ8499 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham
698-1/15/560 (East side)
03/10/74 No.190
Manchester Jewish Museum
(Formerly Listed as:
CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham
(East side)
No.190
New Synagogue)
II*
Spanish and Portugese Synagogue, now museum. 1889, by Edward
Salomons; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate
roofs. T-shaped plan formed by rectangular main vessel at
right-angles to street, with flanking wings to the gabled
facade. Plain building but with elaborate Spanish and
Saracenic motifs in the facade. Two storeys and 3 bays,
symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards slightly; with
plinth, diaper bands, etc.. The centre has a large 2-centred
arched doorway with shafts, polychrome-banded extrados,
recessed door with banded lintel, etc., flanked by small
triangular-headed lancet windows, and at 1st floor an arcaded
5-light window with shafts, arched lights with linked
segmental hoodmoulds, and sill- and head-bands; a cinquefoil
motif over the centre, and dentilled coping with apex finial.
The side wings, both gabled at right-angles to the main axis
and that to the right containing a staircase, have ornamented
1st-floor bands, 3-light windows at ground floor and 2-light
windows above, and gable copings with apex finials. The side
walls of the main range have low plain segmental-headed
windows at ground floor and circular windows above, mostly
with stained glass. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8431799904
Source: English Heritage
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