Jew's Court

on Steep Hill, Lincoln]] Jews' Court is located immediately above Jew's House on Steep Hill. The three-storeyed stone building dates from but was altered in the early 17th century and the windows were replaced in the early-19th and 20th centuries. Historian Cecil Roth believed it to be the site of a medieval synagogue. Documentary evidence of 1290 when the Jewish community of Lincoln was expelled shows that the Jews' Court has always been divided into two houses, and a charter of 1316 mentions that a Jewish scola or synagogue had stood to the west in the tenement behind these two houses. By the early 20th century the property had been sub-divided into cheap accommodation. It was bought by…