Latitude: 51.518 / 51°31'4"N
Longitude: -0.0753 / 0°4'31"W
OS Eastings: 533637
OS Northings: 181657
OS Grid: TQ336816
Mapcode National: GBR WB.60
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.N31L
Plus Code: 9C3XGW9F+6V
Entry Name: Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor
Listing Date: 25 September 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357557
English Heritage Legacy ID: 206491
ID on this website: 101357557
Location: Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, London, E1
County: London
District: Tower Hamlets
Electoral Ward/Division: Spitalfields & Banglatown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tower Hamlets
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Christ Church Spitalfields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following building shall be added BRUNE STREET TQ 3381 14A/427 Nos 17-19 (Soup kitchen for the Jewish Poor) II
Soup kitchen and shop, 1902 by Lewis Solomon. Brick with buff terracotta dressings, slate roof. Ground floor faced with terracotta; the detailing for the shop differs from that of the soup kitchen and part of the shop entrance has been removed. Original wooden shop fronts and doors to soup kitchen survive in large part. Cornice to soup kitchen inscribed 'Way Out/Soup Kitchen/5662. 1902/For the Jewish Poor/Way In'. Upper storeys articulated by pilaster strips, string course and cornice in terracotta. Windows over shop and staircase entrance have gauged brick segmental heads with terracotta keystones. Windows over soup kitchen tripartite with thick terracotta mullions and straight heads of terracotta or segmental heads with terracotta and gauged brick voussoirs. Diocletian window to attic with terracotta and gauged brick voussoirs with terracotta pediment flanked by volutes. Three sets of dormer windows in mansard roof. Interior of soup kitchen: original plan largely unaltered. 'Queuing room' by entrance survives but two original doors closed up and new one opened to hall; original white tiled walls; queuing barriers removed. Committee room to west of hall survives except for loss of partitions. Kitchen to rear of site survives as a space without original counter and cooking equipment; original timber-roof structure and lantern of four bays with decorative cast iron spandrels.
Listing NGR: TQ3363781657
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