Mount Melleray Monastery — MOUNTMELLERAY

End-of-terrace three-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic chapel, c.1850, with single-bay single-storey sacristy to north-west, single-bay double-height lower half-octagonal apse to north-east, and three-bay single-storey over raised-basement linking wing to south-east. Pitched slate roofs (half-octagonal to apse; hipped gabled to linking wing) with decorative clay ridge tiles to main ridge, clay ridge tiles to remainder, cut-limestone profiled coping to gables having cross finials to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Broken coursed squared rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone buttresses to nave (diagonal clasping buttresses to corners), and cut-stone plaque containing coat-of-arms having hood moulding over. Lancet window openings (paired to nave; in tripartite arrangement to south-west) with cut-limestone chamfered surrounds, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to linking wing with cut-limestone chamfered surrounds, hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane leaded windows. Square-headed door opening to basement with chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Set back from line of road with forecourt having unpainted rendered piers with moulded capping having finials, cast-iron double gates with finials, and sections of cast-iron flanking railings to perimeter of site on unpainted rendered plinth with unpainted rendered intermediary piers having moulded capping, and finials.