Singers Hill Synagogue
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Built in 1856, it was designed by Yeoville Thomason
Yeoville Thomason
H. R. Yeoville Thomason was an architect in Birmingham, England. He was born in Edinburgh to a Birmingham family. Thomason set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853-1854....
. It replaced the Greek Revival, 1827 Severn Street Synagogue
Severn Street Synagogue
The Severn Street Synagogue, built in 1813 as a synagogue in Birmingham, England, is now the Athol Masonic Hall. -History:Severn Street was newly carved out of the former Gooch Estate when the synagogue was built in 1809...
, which survives as a Masonic Hall, and was the fourth synagogue building to be erected in the city.
It features "a Norman-wheel window in a building design in red and yellow brick, which combined neo-classical, romanesque, and Italianate details, and used a classical basilica plan, with a central Bimah (reading desk)" http://www.singershill.com/architecture.htm.