Brighton Regency Synagogue is a
Regency
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...
building in Devonshire Place, Brighton, that was built in 1824 as a synagogue and is now an apartment building. It is a
Grade II listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
History
The synagogue was built in 1824–25. It was enlarged in 1836–38 to designs by
David Mocatta
David Alfred Mocatta (1806–1882) was a British architect and a member of the Anglo-Jewish Mocatta family.
Early career
David Alfred Mocatta was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1806, the son of the licensed bullion broker Moses Mocatta ...
, England's first Jewish architect.
The building's chaste, pilastered facade, symmetry, and central doorway are typical of the Regency style. A faded inscription reading (1838) was faintly visible under the pediment in 2006.
[ Inside, the original ceiling lantern, a typical Regency feature, is still in place.][
The building was replaced by the ]Middle Street Synagogue
The Middle Street Synagogue is a synagogue in the centre of Brighton, part of the England, English city of Brighton and Hove. It was the centre for Judaism, Jewish worship in Brighton and Hove for more than a century. Although it is not in full- ...
in 1875, and sold. By 2007 it had been converted into apartments, with the facade sensitively restored and an historic plaque mentioning the architect on the façade.
See also
* Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B
*List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove
The city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England, has more than 100 extant churches and other places of worship, which serve a variety of Christian denominations and other religions. More than 50 former religious buildings, althou ...
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1838 establishments in England
Former religious buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove
Former synagogues in England
Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
Regency architecture in England
Regency and Biedermeier synagogues
Synagogues completed in 1838
Synagogues in Brighton and Hove
David Mocatta buildings