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Saint Joseph's Presentation Convent — College Road

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Saint Joseph's Presentation Convent — College Road
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Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell chapel, built c. 1900. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone copings and decorative carved limestone brackets to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods, render bracket course, and with carved limestone cross finial to north gable. Rendered walls with stepped cut-stone plinth, and with cut dressed limestone diagonal buttresses to corners having cut-stone copings. Stoup to north elevation with carved limestone bowl and carved marble panel with incised cross motif and lettering. Pointed arch window opening to south elevation with chamfered carved limestone block-and-start surround, carved limestone hood-moulding and quarry glazed windows with decorative carved limestone trefoil and quatrefoil tracery. Pointed arch window openings to east and west side elevations with chamfered carved limestone block-and-start surrounds, carved limestone hood-mouldings and stained-glass windows. Pointed arch multifoil window opening to upper part of north gable with carved and chamfered limestone surround, hood-moulding and stained glass. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation with carved limestone plinth blocks, chamfered surround, voussoirs, hood-moulding, decorative timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors with timber trefoil tracery and cut limestone flags to threshold. Surrounded by rendered boundary walls with decorative cast-iron railings and cast-iron gate with cross finial to entrance and having nuns' graveyard to site with cast-iron grave markers and carved limestone cross grave stone.

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