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Latitude: 53.4956 / 53°29'44"N
Longitude: -2.2379 / 2°14'16"W
OS Eastings: 384317
OS Northings: 399904
OS Grid: SJ843999
Mapcode National: GBR DL9.3X
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.LDKK
Plus Code: 9C5VFQW6+6V
Entry Name: Manchester Jewish Museum
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208472
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387990
Also known as: 190 Cheetham Hill Road
ID on this website: 101208472
Location: Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M8
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cheetham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Museum Moorish Revival architecture Independent museum Synagogue Museum building
SJ8499
698-1/15/560
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
CHEETHAM HILL ROAD,Cheetham (East side)
No.190 Manchester Jewish Museum(Formerly Listed as:CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham(East side)No.190 New Synagogue)
GII*
Spanish and Portuguese 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 three bays,symmetrical,the centre breaking forwards slightly;with plinth,diaper bands,etc.The centre has a large two-centred arched doorway with shafts,polychrome-banded extrados,recessed door with banded lintel,etc.,flanked by small triangular-headed lancet windows,and at first floor an arcaded five-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 first-floor bands,three-light windows at ground floor and two-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
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