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Saint Mary's Abbey — GLENCAIRN

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Saint Mary's Abbey — GLENCAIRN
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Attached seven-bay double-height Catholic chapel, built 1930, with single-bay single-storey sacristy to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch, and single-bay three-stage advanced corner tower to south-west on a square plan having single-bay single-storey gabled flanking porch to left (north). Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porches) with decorative clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Broken coursed tooled limestone ashlar walls with stepped buttresses piers to nave having red brick detailing, stepped corner buttresses to sacristy, and cut-limestone dressings to tower including stringcourses to each stage, and battlemented parapet having corner pinnacles with ‘spirelets’ having wrought iron finials to apexes. Pointed-arch window openings (paired to sacristy) with cut-stone sills, block-and-start surrounds, and leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings to first and to second stage to tower with cut-limestone sills, surrounds, hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane leaded windows. Paired lancet openings to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-limestone chamfered surrounds, hood mouldings over, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door openings to porches with cut-limestone chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and timber panelled doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Mary's Abbey.

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