Prayer hall and section of attached cemetery wall to Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery

This is a circa 1872 prayer hall, or 'ohel', and a section of attached cemetery wall within the Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery. The ohel was built of brick, rendered, with a gabled slate roof, and is attached to sections of cemetery boundary wall constructed of flint and stock brick.

The west-facing entrance front features a gable with a brick dogtooth cornice, flanked by tall square stock brick piers topped with pyramidal cemented caps carrying red brick dogtooth moulding. A round-headed entrance arch has a keystone bearing the incised Hebrew date of construction, with a semi-circular fanlight above a plank double door. Attached to the north and south are sections of the cemetery boundary wall, standing approximately 2 metres high, built of flint with brick lacing courses, brick piers, and plain copings which are ramped up alongside the ohel. A section of the boundary wall, built in 1931, is not included in this listing.

The interior bears a Hebrew inscription which translates as "The Dead will the Lord make live" from the daily liturgy.

The cemetery was privately established in 1872 by Benjamin Norden, initially for his wife, and later donated to the Ramsgate Jewish community. Prior to this, Jews in Ramsgate had been buried in London and Canterbury. Initially a small square plot of land surrounding the ohel, the cemetery was administered by the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community from 1887 and extended in 1931.

This ohel is a rare example, with only around 55 known to exist in England, and is particularly significant as it is located within a privately-owned cemetery donated to the community. The attached contemporary cemetery wall is part of the original design.