Heritage Plaques
- Structures
The Jewish Synagogue
CF47 0BA
This building is the last survivor of three Synagogues
that once existed in Merthyr.
Grade II Listed
History
Built as a Synagogue, 1872-5, in heavy Northern Gothic style.
Description
Snecked rubble facings with ashlar bands and dressings; slate roofs with red tiled ridges and finials. Crowning gable with polygonal finials and narrow louvred openings. 5-light window with lancets and blocked lights over 3- storey transverse narthex. Narrow entrance gable, with plate-traceried window under scissor-braced bargeboards, flanked by two 2-storey polygonal staircase turrets with conical roofs on eaves brackets, narrow windows with stone lintels. Double flight of steps with stone piers, iron balustrade (partly missing) and iron lamp
standards rises to gabled doorway with dripstone.
Built as a Synagogue, 1872-5, in heavy Northern Gothic style.
Description
Snecked rubble facings with ashlar bands and dressings; slate roofs with red tiled ridges and finials. Crowning gable with polygonal finials and narrow louvred openings. 5-light window with lancets and blocked lights over 3- storey transverse narthex. Narrow entrance gable, with plate-traceried window under scissor-braced bargeboards, flanked by two 2-storey polygonal staircase turrets with conical roofs on eaves brackets, narrow windows with stone lintels. Double flight of steps with stone piers, iron balustrade (partly missing) and iron lamp
standards rises to gabled doorway with dripstone.
No comments:
Post a Comment