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Convent of Mercy — Palace Street

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Convent of Mercy — Palace Street
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Detached five-bay two-storey convent with advanced gable-fronted end-bays and rear return, dated 1929. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and with cross finials to gables. Roughcast rendered walls with render string course, render quoins and decorative surrounds with keystones to openings. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills throughout. Segmental-arch openings to first floor and round-arched openings to ground floor, of central block. Venetian windows to first floor with statues in recesses over and canted bay windows to ground floor, to end bays. Round-headed door opening with hood-moulding and with glazed timber door with side lights and fanlight. Chapel to rear with apse and four-bay side elevations containing round-headed windows separated by pilasters. Cast-iron gates with ashlar masonry piers to northeast.

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