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Coordinates: 51°23′00″N 0°30′54″E / 51.3832°N 0.5151°E / 51.3832; 0.5151
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Chatham Memorial Synagogue

Chatham Memorial Synagogue
Religion
AffiliationJudaism
DistrictMedway
Year consecrated1869
Statusactive
Location
LocationTQ 75113 67905
CountryUK
Martin of Sheffield/sandbox is located in Kent
Martin of Sheffield/sandbox
Shown within Kent
Geographic coordinates51°23′00″N 0°30′54″E / 51.3832°N 0.5151°E / 51.3832; 0.5151
Direction of façadeNorth
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated2 December 1985
Reference no.1086467
Website
https://www.chathamshul.org.uk/

Chatham Memorial Synagogue is a Grade II* listed building in Chatham, Kent. The Memorial Synagogue is on the site of an earlier synagogue.

Earlier synagogues

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It is possible that the site originated as a Jewish burial ground c. 1700 before the first synagogue was built.[1] The earliest readable gravestone dates from around 1790 but some of the graves are clearly older than that. A half stone dated 1747 is stored in the Rochester Guildhall Museum having been recovered from the foundations of an old theatre.[1] Little is known about the first synagogue on the site. The site of the synagogue along with an earlier building was purchased in 1750 "for the purpose of making a synagogue of the Jews".[1] Some time between 1770 and 1780 this old building was demolished and a purpose-built synagogue erected. A lease of 1780 records "lately rebuilt and is now a Jew Synagogue".[2] This synagogue was of Polish timber and brick.[1] In 1847 the building was described as being "a small building ... about one hundred years old, with a clock, visible from the High Street, noteworthy for having a face with Hebrew characters".[1] The 1866 Ordnance Survey 1:500 map shows this synagogue occupying the northern half of the present burial ground.

Memorial Synagogue

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Built in memory of Lazarus Simon Magnus.

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