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Convent of the Sisters of Mercy — Church Avenue

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Convent of the Sisters of Mercy — Church Avenue
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Detached ten-bay two-storey convent and school, built 1863, with projecting gabled central bay, porch to east and chapel terminating west end. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and metal cross finials to gables. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth, decorative render surrounds to openings and decorative render plaque to projecting bay. Single and paired windows, lancets with hood-mouldings to ground floor and to first floor of projecting bay, and square-headed with chamfered corners to first floor, with replacement windows. Gabled porch has recessed doorway with engaged columns and timber panelled door with quatrefoil motif above. Chapel has four-bay side elevations, canted south gable and three-bay sacristy, pitched slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls and paired lancets with stained-glass windows, and one-over-one pane pointed timber sash windows to sacristy. Pointed-arch doorway with hood-moulding to north gable, with lancet and round windows above.

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