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Saint Mary's Convent — Chapel Hill

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Saint Mary's Convent — Chapel Hill
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Attached U-plan ten-bay single-storey school, built c.1890, having projecting gable-fronted end-bays to front (north) and gabled end-bays to rear (south). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, wrought-iron ridge vents, copper clad gable copings to projecting end-bays and cast-iron rainwater goods having limestone supporting corbels to front elevation. Snecked dressed sandstone walls with plinth, having tooled limestone quoins and chamfered limestone coping to plinth. Tudor arch window openings with cut limestone sills and block-and-star surrounds to front elevation, having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Groups of three window openings to projecting end-bays, having tooled limestone mullions and timber casement windows. Oculus window openings to projecting end-bay gables, having dressed sandstone voussoirs and tooled limestone tracery with replacement glazing. Red brick voussoirs and surrounds to rear elevation openings. Pointed arch door openings with cut limestone surrounds and timber battened doors. Set within grounds of convent complex.

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