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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint David — Sallins Road

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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint David — Sallins Road
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Detached seven-bay three-storey convent, c.1925, on an L-shaped plan retaining early aspect with three-bay three-storey return to rear to north-west. Renovated, c.1975, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to centre ground floor. Now disused. Hipped roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Red clay ridge tiles including decorative ridge tiles to main ridge. Red brick chimney stacks on rendered plinths. Cast-iron rainwater goods on red and yellow brick moulded eaves course. Gabled to porch. Artificial slate. Overhanging timber eaves and bargeboards. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Red and yellow brick moulded eaves course. Grey brick walls to porch. Square-headed openings. Chamfered cut-granite sills. Cut-granite block-and-start surrounds (with hood mouldings over to ground and to first floor). 1/1 bipartite timber sash windows to ground floor with fixed-pane stained glass lights over. 1/1 timber sash windows to remainder. Concrete sills to porch. Timber casement windows. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Catholic church. Section of hoop iron railings to forecourt.Attached five-bay double-height Catholic chapel, c.1925, to north-west with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to south-east and single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-west. Hipped and gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gable to chancel with iron cladding over having block to apex. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Cinquefoil-headed window openings to nave in cut-stone lancet-arch frames. Stone sills. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to chancel in cut-stone lancet-arch frames having quatrefoil opening to centre of arches in cut-stone medallion. Cut-stone sills. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows to all openings. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone chamfered surround and lintel. Timber panelled door. Overlight.

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