Saint Joseph's Convent of Mercy — Saint Joseph's Road

Attached convent chapel on cruciform cruciform-plan, built 1872-74, comprising a four-bay nave, tower on square-plan (with pyramidal roof over) attached to the south end of the west elevation, single-bay transepts to the east, and west, and single-storey sacristy and vestry attached to the north end. Single-bay porches adjoining north ends of transepts. Crypt to north end of chapel, under chancel. Hipped and pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and finials. Dressed coursed limestone chimneystack to chancel. Bracketed eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls over chamfered dressed limestone plinth with clasping buttresses to nave. Flush dressed limestone quoins to corners and dressed limestone string courses. Pointed arch, shouldered and trifoliate window openings with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills, hood mouldings and stained glass windows. Pointed arch window openings to north elevation with cusped geometric tracery, dressed limestone block-and-start surround, hood mouldings and leaded stained glass. Rose windows to east and west transepts with carved limestone tracery, hood mouldings and stained glass. Louvered gablets and pointed arch openings with quatrefoil to tower. Pointed arch, pointed segmental and shouldered entrance openings with moulded limestone surrounds and hood mouldings. Timber battened doors, accessed via concrete steps. Situated in paved and landscaped surrounds to the southeast of Longford Town centre. Attached to the north end of the Convent of Mercy (13004040). Coursed limestone boundary wall to street frontage (west). Coursed limestone gate piers on square-plan and iron gates give access to site from the west.