Presentation Convent — Nunnery Road

Attached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic chapel, extant 1863, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on truncated vent, cut-granite "slated" coping to gables with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Lancet window openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pair of lancet window openings to entrance (west) front with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with arcaded choir gallery (west) on quatrefoil-detailed pointed-arch tripartite arcade, herring bone-pattern timber parquet floor, diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail centred on Celtic Cross finial-topped timber stalls, stained glass window, stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with stained glass "East Window" (----), and trefoil-detailed exposed timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled polygonal vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on perforated frieze on carved timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Presentation Convent.