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Saint Mel's Catholic College — Saint Mel's Road

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Saint Mel's Catholic College — Saint Mel's Road
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Attached five-bay single cell chapel associated with St. Mel’s College (13003002), built c. 1865, with apsidal sanctuary to the northeast, side aisle to the northwest side and extended two-bay single-storey sacristy to west. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building with cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystack to the northwest pitch and cut stone verge to the northeast end having cut stone finial to apex. Semi-conical natural slate roof to apsidal sanctuary and hipped natural slate roof to attached sacristy. Painted roughcast rendered walls over dressed limestone plinth with dressed limestone quoins to the northeast end, smooth render plinth to side aisle and to sacristy extension. Round-headed window openings with chamfered tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and having stained glass windows. Situated within the grounds of St. Mel's College (13003002) and to the east of Longford Town centre.

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