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Loreto Convent — Church Lane

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Loreto Convent — Church Lane
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Attached five-bay double-height over raised-basement single-cell private Catholic chapel, built 1868. Extensively renovated, 1994, to accommodate use as hostel. Hipped and pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 1994, on squared limestone eaves. Broken coursed squared limestone walls part repointed, 1994, with cut-limestone stringcourse to ground floor. Square-headed window openings to basement with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows, 1994. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, cut-limestone voussoirs, carved timber mullions forming bipartite trefoil-headed arrangement with quatrefoils to arches, and fixed-pane fittings having some pivot lights. Full-height interior open into roof with tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting, trefoil timber panelled gallery to first floor on cast-iron Corinthian colonettes, and vaulted ceiling having decorative plasterwork ribs resting on decorative corbels. Set back from road in shared grounds.

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