Description

ABBEY ROAD
TQ 2683 SW
11/75
New London Synagogue
II
Synagogue. 1882, by H H Collins. Red brick with channelled rustication to
lower stage; slate roofs. Rectangular plan. North Italian Romanesque style to
3-storey front. Outer bays each have round-arched 2-light windows above paired
blind windows with railhead decoration to tympanum set in round-arched
architrave with flanking pilasters; projecting bays with similar one-light
windows flank pedimented central bay with large round arched architrave to
3-light window with balcony, over projecting portico with arcade of 3
semi-circular arches set on coupled columns with foliate capitals and central
bracketed pediment; semi-circular arches over 3 half-glazed double doors.
Five-bay side elevations have 3 round-arched windows above shouldered windows to
each bay; porch with semi-circular arched door to rear. Interior: entrance
half with moulded cornices to coffered ceiling; 3-bay semi-circular arched
arcades set on fluted columns with foliate capitals leading to outer bays each
with decorative wrought-iron balustrade to staircase. Synagogue interior of
5-bays with gallery to 3 sides: cast-iron fluted and coupled columns with
stylised Composite capitals and decorative spandrels to beams of coffered
ceiling with foliate coved cornices and original sun burners. Triple arcade to
west end. Italianate-style ark, of wood with Ionic columns and entablature
supported on four semi-circular arches with pilasters to central pediment; bimah
in similar style. Stained-glass windows. Interior noted as displayed, a good
use of structural cast iron.

Listing NGR: TQ2626883319

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• New London Synagogue at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26539955

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]