Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANNESLEY STREET, SYNAGOGUE

Name: PENTLAND, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANNESLEY STREET, SYNAGOGUE
Date: 1903
Nature: Plans being prepared for new synagogue costing approx. £3,000. (Not executed?)
Refs: IB 45, 14 Jun 1903, 1814

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANNESLEY STREET, SYNAGOGUE
Date: 1904
Nature: New synagogue, 75 ft x 37 ft, to accommodate 355 men and 212 women persons. Simple treatment of the early Round-arches style has been adopted . FS laid by Lady Jaffé, Mayoress of Belfast, Feb or Mar 1904. Consecrated 31 Aug 1904. Consulting architect: Benjamin Septimus Jacobs, Hull. Contractor: James Henry & Sons. (Replaced by new synagogue in Somerton Rd, 1965.)
Refs: IB 45, 14 Jun 1903, 1814; 46, 16,30 Jan,13 Feb,12 Mar 1904, 40,86,158; B 86, 5 Mar 1904, 260; Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in England(English Heritage, 2006), 205;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 121(ILLUS.),285.


Name: JACOBS, BENJAMIN SEPTIMUS #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANNESLEY STREET, SYNAGOGUE
Date: 1904
Nature: BSJ consulting architect for new synagogue designed by Young & Mackenzie.
Refs: IB 46, 16,30 Jan,13 Feb,12 Mar 1904, 40,86,158; B 86, 5 Mar 1904, 260; Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in England(English Heritage, 2006), 205

Name: DOBSON, ADAM BUNYAN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANNESLEY STREET, SYNAGOGUE
Date: 1928
Nature: Adds. to lavatory accommodation.
Refs: IB 70, 4 Aug 1928 671