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St Catherine's Convent — Highfield Lawn

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St Catherine's Convent — Highfield Lawn
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Detached three-bay two-storey convent, built 1957, having ten-bay return to rear (east) elevation and adjoining gable-fronted chapel to north with four-bay elevation to nave and flat-roofed sacristy to rear (west). Flat-roofed extension to south-west corner. Hipped artificial slate roof, pitched to chapel, with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods to projecting eaves. Red brick walls. Bipartite square-headed window openings with concrete sills and mullions and replacement uPVC windows. Bipartite pointed arch window openings to chapel nave with triple-light window to west elevation having concrete sills, surrounds and leaded glass. Recessed square-headed door opening set in moulded render surround incorporating keystone with cross decoration to timber door and overlight. Double-height round-arched recess to east elevation of church with moulded concrete surround, square-headed door opening having double-leaf timber battened door and triple-light window above. Set within its own grounds and bounded to front by roughcast rendered boundary wall with wrought-iron railings and gates.

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