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Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy — Emmet Street

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Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy — Emmet Street
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Detached seven-bay two-and three-storey Gothic Revival convent, built c.1867. Comprising of five-bay two-storey central block, flanked by gabled projecting three-storey terminating bays. Snecked limestone walls with corner buttresses and ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof with ashlar limestone chimneystacks. Single, double or triple light lancet windows. Gabled porch, with timber battened double doors having decorative cast-iron strap hinges, set in pointed arched opening. The convent chapel with spire to the south.

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