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Saint Mary's Convent — Bishop Street

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Saint Mary's Convent — Bishop Street
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Attached seven-bay two-storey limestone school, built c. 1870, with polychrome brick dressing. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, the gutters of which rest on a polychrome brick eaves course. Three red brick chimneystacks, one to the north gabled wall with yellow brick stringcourses. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls with red brick corner pilasters with yellow brick detailing. Red and yellow brick stringcourses at first floor sill level to the gabled side elevation. Segmental-headed window openings to front side and rear elevation, with red brick arches, block-and-start reveals, and limestone sills surrounding replacement uPVC windows. Windows form tripartite composition to gabled side elevation. Mild steel security grilles to all windows on Bishop Street elevation. Segmental-headed door opening with red brick arch having yellow brick keystone, red brick reveal with stepped yellow brick inner reveal, replacement panelled timber double-leaf doors with replacement uPVC glazed overlight. Modern school attached to south with building site adjacent to north.

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