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Ursuline Convent — Cathedral Street

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Ursuline Convent — Cathedral Street
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Freestanding eight-bay three-storey convent, built 1864, with chapel built c.1867 to west. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron roof-lights. Rendered walls with moulded cornices and incised plat bands and lintels to openings. Square-headed windows to upper floors and double round-headed replacement windows to ground, with limestone sills. Chapel has pitched slate roofs with modillions, dressed limestone walls with chamfered round-headed stained-glass windows and cast iron cross finials.

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