Newcastle, Leazes Park Road, No. 12, Leazes Arcade

HER Number:
8932

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Leazes Park Road, No. 12, Leazes Arcade

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Synagogue

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

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. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2456

Northing:
6457

Grid Reference:
NZ24566457

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 16/360; Sharman Kadish, 2006, Jewish Heritage in England - An Architectural Guide, pages 186-187; Newcastle City Council, 2000, Leazes Conservation Area Character Statement, page 27; www.jewishgen.org