Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds

The Northern School of Contemporary Dance is in Chapeltown, Leeds and was designed by Yorkshire architect J Stanley Wright in 1929. The building was originally a Jewish Synagogue. It was the first major Synagogue to be built in Leeds, when the Jewish community lived in the Chapeltown area. Gradually as the community moved out towards the north of the city, so did their faith buildings. The Synagogue closed in 1985, and Northern School of Contemporary Dance moved into the building in 1987, and redeveloped it between 1987 and 1997.