Temple Court (former Cardiff United Synagogue)

Temple Court, formerly known as Cardiff United Synagogue, is a building constructed in a stripped Romanesque style using snecked rubble with freestone dressings. It features Welsh slated main roofs and leaded domes topped with finials. The synagogue has a wide one-storey porch that projects from the high gable end, with a central entry flanked by vestibules. The structure includes a domed apse and two domed polygonal towers, with an aisled nave at the rear. The main gable is treated with a pediment, and there are moulded cornices with angle brackets over the rainwater pipes. A continuous arched clerestory with linked hoodmoulds leads to the apse. The porch has parapets with cappings angled over the doorway, corner buttresses, and 2-light mullioned windows that are arched on the ground floor. The doorway features a painted archway of three orders with a roll moulded head, scalloped capitals, and attached columns, along with a Hebrew inscription on the outer archring. Double panelled doors lead up steps to the entrance.

Inside, the tall nave has clerestory windows grouped under arches, while the gabled aisles have 3-light windows on two levels, with round-headed windows under segmental relieving arches on the ground floor. An oval oculus is present on the plain gable end, and there is stained glass throughout. An inscription on the entrance front states: "This Foundation Stone of the Cardiff New Synagogue was laid by Col. Albert Edward W Goldsmid, 41st Regimental District. April 29th 1896 / 5656 Delissa Joseph FRIBA, Architect."

Since its listing in 1984, the interior has been converted to offices, and while it was not available for inspection at that time, a partial resurvey revealed that the interior has been completely altered. The only original feature noted was the domed apse above the entrance, which includes seven narrow coloured glass lights and panelled plasterwork in the half-dome above. Additionally, there is now a large late 20th-century office block attached to the rear of the building.