Tyne and Wear HER(8932): 12 Leazes Park Road, Leazes Arcade - Details
8932
Newcastle
12 Leazes Park Road, Leazes Arcade
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Synagogue
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
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.
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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; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1087064