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Bon Secour Hospital — College Road

convent/nunnery
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Bon Secour Hospital — College Road
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Attached six-bay three-storey convent with off centre gabled entrance porch, built c.1915, having nine-bay side elevation to west, chapel to east with canted apse to north and four-bay nave elevation. Hipped slate roofs with ashlar limestone and rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and central fleche to convent block. Snecked limestone walls with buttresses and string course to chapel. Camber-headed openings with replacement fitting to convent. Pointed arch opening to porch, with pair of timber matchboard double leaf doors with carved limestone hood moulding with mask to stop, approached by flight of limestone steps with wrought-iron railings. Pointed arch openings with carved limestone hood mouldings to chapel, set in lancet arrangement to side elevation, and in pairs of ogee-headed with quatrefoils above to apse.

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