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Latitude: 51.9003 / 51°54'0"N
Longitude: -2.0805 / 2°4'49"W
OS Eastings: 394554
OS Northings: 222417
OS Grid: SO945224
Mapcode National: GBR 2M4.W80
Mapcode Global: VH947.WHGL
Plus Code: 9C3VWW29+4Q
Entry Name: Synagogue
Listing Date: 5 May 1972
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387877
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475869
ID on this website: 101387877
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cheltenham
Electoral Ward/Division: Lansdown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Cheltenham
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Cheltenham, St Mary with St Matthew
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Synagogue Neoclassical architecture
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
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