12 Leazes Park Road, Leazes Arcade

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Synagogue, now shopping arcade. 1880 by John Johnstone. Sandstone ashlar with rock-faced plinth; Welsh slate roof. North Italian style. Basement and 2 storeys; 1:3:1 bays, the central 3 under gable. Outer entrance bays have end pilasters; double doors, and fanlights with circle glazing bars, between pink granite shafts under moulded round arches; 5 arcaded windows on upper floor. Pilasters flank central 3 bays; intersecting segmental arcade contains 2 side and 4 centre ground- floor windows; upper windows paired under round arches with Star of David carved in tympana. Sloped Lombard frieze up gable. 8-foil blind window in gable peak with acroterion. Blocks above pilasters have high, curved pyramidal finials with fishscale pattern. Interior galleries.'
Sharman Kadish (2206) - The synagogue included classrooms, caretaker's house and mikveh (Jewish Ritual Bath) in the basement. Closed in 1978 and became a shopping arcade until being gutted by fire. Now being converted for residential use. The only visible Jewish symbolism is the Stars of David in the upper-floor window heads. In 2013 the ground floor is Madisons, first floor is the Hyena Café.