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Listings - Listed Synagogues and other Jewish Sites in the United Kingdom

Last Updated 20 August 2023

London

SYNAGOGUES

In use as synagogues

Grade I

Bevis Marks, EC3A 5DQ (Joseph Avis 1699-1701)

New West End, St Petersburgh Place, W2 4LB (George Audsley in association with N.S. Joseph 1877-79)


Grade II*

Hampstead, Dennington Park Road, NW6 1AX (Delissa Joseph 1892-1901)


Grade II

Golders Green, 41, Dunstan Road, London, NW11 8AE (Lewis Solomon & Son [Digby] 1921-22. Enlarged by Messrs. Joseph 1927)

New, Egerton Road, N16 6UB (Joseph & Smithem 1915. Interior reconstructed from Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate, by John Davies 1838)

New London, 33, Abbey Road, NW8 0AT (H.H. Collins 1880-82. Formerly St. John's Wood United Synagogue)

Western Marble Arch, 1, Wallenberg Place (formerly 32, Great Cumberland Place), W1H 7TN (T. P. Bennett & Son 1961-62)

West London (Reform), 34, Upper Berkeley Street, W1H 5QE (Davis & Emanuel 1869-70)

Sandys Row, E1 7HW (Former chapel 1766. Converted into synagogue 1867. Remodelled by N.S. Joseph 1870)

Spanish & Portuguese, Lauderdale Road W9 1LT (Davis & Emanuel 1896)

 

Former synagogues

Grade II*

Princelet Street, E1 6QH (Former synagogue 1870 behind Huguenot house 1718-19. Hudson 1869-70. Remodelled by Lewis Solomon 1892-93)

Spitalfields Great Synagogue, 59 Brick Lane/Fournier Street, E1 6QL (Former French church 1742-43. Converted into synagogue 1897-98. Now London Jamme Masjid [Mosque]).


Grade II

Dollis Hill, Parkside, NW2 6RJ (Sir Owen Williams 1937-38. Torah Temimah Primary School)

East London Synagogue, Rectory Square, E1 3NU (Davis & Emanuel 1876-77. Flats)

Hackney Synagogue, 20, Brenthouse Road, E9 6QG (Delissa Joseph 1897. Enlarged by Cecil J. Eprile 1936. Church)

 

POST-WAR SYNAGOGUES CURRENTLY HOUSED IN LISTED BUILDINGS

Grade II*

London, Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue, 1 Victory Road, Hermon Hill, E11 1UL (Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum at Wanstead Hospital, Chapel by George Somers Clarke 1861-63. Synagogue 2000. Contains fixtures and fittings from the synagogue at the former Tottenham Jewish Home & Hospital 1913-15)


Grade II

Elstree Liberal Synagogue, Elstree High Street, Hertfordshire, WD6 3EY (Church of England schoolhouse 1882-83, synagogue 1976)

 

OTHER BUILDING TYPES

Grade II

88, Whitechapel High Street, E1 (former offices of the Jewish Daily Post, with shop signs by Arthur Szyk, ca. 1934-35)

Albert Stern House, formerly Spanish & Portuguese Bet Holim ('Lying-in' Hospital and Sephardi Almshouses) 253 Mile End Road, E1 4BJ (Manuel Nunes Castello, 1912-13)

Jews' Infant School, 43A Commercial Street, E1 6BD (Tillot & Chamberlain 1858, extended by Davis & Emanuel 1885. Commercial)

Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, 17-19 Brune Street E1 7NZ (Lewis Solomon 1902. Flats)

Stepney Jewish Schools, 71 Stepney Green, E1 3LE (Davis & Emanuel 1906-07)

 

BURIAL GROUNDS, MAUSOLEA AND MEMORIALS

Grade II

Alderney Road, E1 4EQ (Ashkenazi) (1696-97)

Golders Green Jewish Cemetery, Hoop Lane, NW11 7NJ (Davis & Emanuel 1894-1897) Entrance gateway and Ohalim

Hackney Jewish Cemetery, 103 Lauriston Road, E9 7HJ (1788)

King Edward VII Jewish Memorial Drinking Fountain, Whitechapel Road, E1 (opposite Royal London Hospital) (W.S. Frith 1911)

Mile End Velho (Sephardi), 253, Mile End Road, E1 (1657)

Mile End Nuevo (Sephardi), Queen Mary University of London Campus, Mile End Road, E1 (Old Section 1733) boundary walls and foundation stone.

Rothschild Mausoleum (Matthew Digby Wyatt 1866), West Ham Jewish Cemetery, Buckingham Road, E15 1SP

West London Reform Cemetery (Kingsbury Road/Balls Pond Road), NW1 4AW (1843)

Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United), Beaconsfield Road, NW10 2JE (1873) Ohalim (N.S. Joseph 1873), War Memorial (Ralph Hobday 1961), Rothschild/Rosebury Enclosure (ca. 1890), tombs of Max Eberstadt (Edward Burne-Jones 1891) and Rosalind Franklin (1958).

Willesden Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Pound Lane, Harlesden Road, NW10 2HG (1914) War memorial


Parks & Gardens Register

Grade II

Golders Green Jewish Cemetery, Hoop Lane, NW11 7NJ (Davis & Emanuel 1894-1897); only the southern section closest to the entrance, in use from 1896-1915

Mile End Nuevo (Sephardi), Queen Mary University of London Campus, Mile End Road, E1 (New Section, 1855)

Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United), Beaconsfield Road, NW10 2JE (1872-1873) (excluding Pound Lane Field)



English Regions

MEDIAEVAL SITES WITH POSSIBLE JEWISH ASSOCIATIONS

Grade I

Bury St Edmunds, Moyse's Hall, Cornhill, IP33 1DX (ca. 1180)

Lincoln

 - Aaron the Jew's House (the Norman House), 47, Steep Hill, LN2 1LU (ca. 1170)

 - Jews' Court, 2-3, Steep Hill, LN2 1LS (ca. 1170)

 - Jews' House, 15, The Strait, LN2 1JD (ca. 1170)

Norwich, the Music House or Jurnet's House, Wensum Lodge, 167-169, King Street, NR1 1QW (ca. 1175)


Scheduled Ancient Monuments

Bristol, Jacob's Well, 33 Jacob's Well Road, Bristol, BS8 1QD (Possible Mediaeval Mikveh, ca. 1140)

York, Clifford's Tower, YO1 9SA (Rebuilt)


SYNAGOGUES

In use as synagogues

Grade I

Liverpool, Old Hebrew Congregation, Princes Road, L8 1TG (W. & G. Audsley 1872-74)


Grade II*

Birmingham, Singers Hill, Blucher Street, B1 1HL (Henry R. Yeoville Thomason 1855-56)

Bradford (Reform), Bowland Street, BD1 3BW (T.H. & F. Healey 1880-81)

Brighton, Middle Street, BN1 1AL (Thomas Lainson 1874-75)

Chatham Memorial Synagogue, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1DJ (H.H. Collins 1865-70)

Cheltenham, Synagogue Lane, off St James's Square, GL50 3PU (W.H. Knight 1837-39)

Exeter, Synagogue Place, Mary Arches Street, EX4 3BA (1763-64. Refronted 1835)

Plymouth, Catherine Street, PL1 2AD (1761-62)

Ramsgate, Montefiore Synagogue, Honeysuckle Road, CT11 8AA (David Mocatta 1831-33)


Grade II

Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation, Wootton Gardens, BH1 1PW (Lawson & Reynolds 1910-11)

Bristol, 9 Park Row, BS1 5LP (H.H. Collins with S.C. Fripp 1870-71)

Coventry (Barras Lane), 32, Gloucester Street, CV1 3BZ (Thomas Naden 1870)

Grimsby, Sir Moses Montefiore Synagogue, Heneage Road, DN32 9DZ (B.S. Jacobs, 1885-88 and Mikveh 1915-16)

Leicester, Highfield Street, LE2 1AD (Arthur Wakerley 1897-98)

Manchester
 - Withington Spanish & Portuguese, 8 Queenston Road, West Didsbury, M20 2WZ (Delissa Joseph 1925-27)
 - Higher Crumpsall, Bury Old Road, Salford, M7 4PX (Pendleton & Dickinson 1928-29)
 - South Manchester, Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, M14 6JS (Joseph Sunlight 1912-13)

Reading, Goldsmid Road, RG1 7YB (W.G. Lewton 1900)

 

Former synagogues

Grade I

Brighton, 26, Brunswick Terrace, Hove, BN3 1HJ (Rooftop private synagogue of Philip Salomon ca. 1850s)


Grade II*

Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation, Greenbank Drive, L17 1AN (Alfred E. Shennan 1936-37)

Manchester, Spanish & Portuguese, 190 Cheetham Hill Road, M8 8LW (Edward Salomons 1873-74. Now Manchester Jewish Museum)


Grade II

Birmingham, Severn Street Synagogue, Now The Athol Masonic Hall, 60, Severn Street, B1 1QC (Richard Tutin 1825-27)

Blackpool, Leamington Road, FY1 4HD (R.B. Mather 1914-16)

Brighton Regency Synagogue, 38, Devonshire Place, BN2 1QB (Benjamin Bennett 1823-24, remodelled by David Mocatta 1836-38. Flats)

Canterbury, The Old Synagogue, King Street, CT1 2AJ/2AR (Hezekiah Marshall 1847-48. Now King's School Recital Room)

Falmouth, The Old Synagogue, Smithick Hill, TR11 3EH (1808. Now Studio)

Hull, The Western Synagogue, Linnaeus Street, HU3 2PD (B.S. Jacobs 1902-03)

Leeds, New Synagogue, 98, Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH (J. Stanley Wright 1929-32. Now Northern School of Contemporary Dance)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Leazes Park Synagogue, NE1 4PF (John Johnstone 1879-80. Flats)

Oxford Carmel College Synagogue, Mongewell Park, Crowmarsh, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BT (Thomas Hancock 1963-64)

Penzance, Penzance Synagogue, Rear of the Star Inn, 119 Market Jew Street, TR18 2LD (architect unknown, 1807)
[Note: Since 2015 Penzance Synagogue has been specifically referred to in the List Description for the Star Inn, itself Grade II]

Sheffield United Hebrew Congregation, Wilson Road, S11 8RN (Rawcliffe & Ogden 1929-30. Now Church)

Sunderland, Ryhope Road, SR2 7EQ (Marcus K. Glass 1928)

 

OTHER BUILDING TYPES

Grade II*

Oxford Carmel College, Mongewell Park, Crowmarsh, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BT:

 - Julius Gottlieb Gallery & Boathouse (Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington & Collins 1968-70


Grade II

Liverpool, 29, Pembroke Place, L3; former P. Galkoff Kosher Butcher shop, ca. 1930 [façade moved to National Museums Liverpool, 2018]

Oxford Carmel College, Mongewell Park, Crowmarsh, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BT - Amphitheatre (Thomas Hancock 1965)

 

BURIAL GROUNDS, MAUSOLEA AND MEMORIALS

Grade II*

Ramsgate, Montefiore Mausoleum, Honeysuckle Road, CT11 8AA (1862)


Grade II

Bath, Greendown Place and 174 Bradford Road, Combe Hill, BA2 5DD (1812)

Birmingham City Cemetery (1863)

 - Witton Old Jewish Cemetery, The Ridgeway, College Road, Erdington, B23 7TD - Granville Street Cemetery Memorial (1876)

 - Witton New Jewish Cemetery, Warren Road, B44 8QH - Ohel (Essex & Goodman 1937)

Brighton

 - Florence Place Old Jewish Burial Ground, Ditchling Road, BN1 7GU (1826) Ohel (Lainson & Son 1893) and lamp post outside

 - Sassoon Mausoleum, Paston Place/St George's Road, Kemp Town, BN2 1EF (1892)

Bristol, St Philip's Jewish Cemetery, Barton Road, BS2 0LF (Oldest tombstone 1762) (1759) boundary walls

Exeter, Bull Meadow Jews' Burial Ground, Magdalen Street, Bull Meadow, EX2 4HS (1757) boundary walls

Falmouth Jews' Burial Ground, A39 Falmouth Road, Penryn, Ponsharden, TR10 8AB [postcode of nearby Lidl store] two tombstones

Ipswich, Salthouse Lane Jews' Burial Ground, off Star Lane, IP4 1BP (1796) boundary walls

Kings Lynn, Millfleet Jews' Burial Ground, Stonegate Street, PE30 5EG (at least 1811)

Liverpool, Jews' Burial Ground, Deane Road, Kensington, L7 0ET (1836-37) screen wall and front railings

Manchester, Urmston Jewish Cemetery, Chapel Grove, M41 9BB (1878?) War Memorial Obelisk and Tablet (Abraham Lesser Carliph 1919)

Norwich City [Earlham] Cemetery Jewish Section, Bowthorpe Road, NR2 3TN (1856), Ohel (E.E. Benest, 1856)

Nottingham, North Sherwood Street Jews' Burial Ground, NG1 4EN (1823)

Penzance, Jews' Burial Ground, Lestinnick Terrace, TR18 2HB (1791)

Plymouth Hoe Old Jews’ Burial Ground, Lambhay Hill, PL1 2NW (Before 1758)

Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery, Upper Dumpton Park Road, CT11 7PG (1872) Ohel and sections of boundary wall

Southampton, Southampton Old (Common) Cemetery, Jewish Section, Cemetery Road, SO15 7NN (1854), Ohel.

Wolverhampton, Old Jewish Burial Ground, Cockshutts Lane, Thomson Avenue, WV2 3NP (1851). Ohel and walls.

 

Scheduled Ancient Monument

Grade II*

Falmouth Jews' Burial Ground, A39 Falmouth Road, Penryn, Ponsharden, TR10 8AB [postcode of nearby Lidl store] (ca. 1780)

 

REGISTER OF PARKS & GARDENS OF SPECIAL HISTORIC INTEREST IN ENGLAND

Jewish Plots in Municipal Cemeteries included on the P&G Register

Note: Date of opening of cemetery, followed by date of opening of Jewish plot, where known
With the exceptions of Coventry and Southampton, all these cemeteries have been added to the Register since 2001


LONDON See above


ENGLISH REGIONS

Grade II*

Coventry, London Road Cemetery, Whitley, CV1 2JQ (Joseph Paxton) 1847 1864

Ipswich Old Cemetery, Jewish Section, Cemetery Lane, IP4 2TQ 1855, 1855

Southampton, Southampton Old (Common) Cemetery, Jewish Section, Cemetery Road, SO15 7NN 1846, 1854

 

Grade II

Birmingham

 - Birmingham City Cemetery, 1863, Witton Old Jewish Cemetery, The Ridgeway, College Road, Erdington, B23 7TD 1868-1871

 - Brandwood End Cemetery, Jewish Section, Woodthorpe Road, Kings Norton, Stirchley, B14 6EQ 1895-99, 1918

Bradford Scholemoor Cemetery, Jewish Sections, Necropolis Road, Scholemoor Road, Lidget Green, BD7 2PS 1860, Reform Section 1877

Manchester

 - Philips Park Cemetery, Jewish Section, Riverpark Road, Eastlands, M40 2XP 1866-67, 1875

 - Southern Cemetery, Jewish Section, Barlow Moor Road, M21 7GL 1879, 1892

Norwich City [Earlham] Cemetery, Jewish Section, Bowthorpe Road, NR2 3TN 1856, 1856

Preston Old Cemetery, Jewish Section, New Hall Lane, PR1 4SY 1855, 1913



Wales

Synagogues

Former synagogues

Grade II

Cardiff, Cathedral Road, Riverside, CF119HA (Delissa Joseph 1896-97. Demolished behind façade)

Merthyr Tydfil, Bryntirion Road, Thomastown, CF47 0EE (1876-77. Redundant gym, purchased by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage in 2019)



Scotland

SYNAGOGUES

In use as synagogues

Scottish A List

Glasgow, Garnethill Synagogue, 129 Hill Street, G3 6UB (John McLeod in association with N.S. Joseph 1877-79)


Scottish B List

Edinburgh, Salisbury Road, Newington, EH16 5AB (James Miller 1929-32)


Former synagogue

Scottish B List

Glasgow, Queen's Park Synagogue, 60, Lochleven Road, G42 9JU (Ninian MacWhannel 1924-27. Flats)

 

BURIAL GROUNDS, MAUSOLEA AND MEMORIALS

Scottish A List

Glasgow Necropolis, Jews' Enclosure, Cathedral Square, G4 0UZ (1832)


Scottish B List

Edinburgh

 - Braid Place Old Jews' Burial Ground, Sciennes House Place, off Causewayside, Newington, EH9 1NN (1820)

 - Newington Cemetery, Jewish Section, Echobank, 222, Dalkeith Road, EH16 5DT (1869)

Glasgow

 - Glasgow Eastern Necropolis, Jewish Section, (Janefield/Gallowgate Jewish Cemetery), 1264, Gallowgate, Parkhead, G31 4DR (1856)

 - Glasgow Western Necropolis, Jewish Section, Tresta Road, Maryhill, G23 5AA (1882) including the Ohel (1898)

Greenock Cemetery, Jewish Section, Bow Road, PA16 7JF (1911)



Northern Ireland

SYNAGOGUES

In use as synagogues

Grade II

Belfast Hebrew Congregation, 49 Somerton Road, BT15 3LH (Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke, Rosenberg, Mardall, 1961-64)

This influential 1960s circular synagogue with star-shaped ceiling is only the third post-Second World War synagogue to be Listed in the UK (in 2015)
The others are (the former) Carmel College Synagogue and Marble Arch Synagogue


Former synagogue

Grade II

Belfast Hebrew Congregation, 4 Annesley Street, BT14 6AU (Young & Mackenzie with B.S. Jacobs 1904. Now Mater Hospital Physiotherapy Gym)

 

BURIAL GROUNDS, MAUSOLEA AND MEMORIALS

Grade II

Belfast, Jaffe Memorial Fountain, 1, Victoria Square, BT1 4QG (1877)