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Attached former chapel of Magdalen home, dated 1950, now in use as archive centre. Comprises six-bay nave with bowed south gable, shallow porch projection to north end, shallow transept-like projection to east, and recent porch addition to east side having lean-to roof. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings to gables with cross finials, overhanging rendered eaves on exposed timber rafters to nave side walls, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rusticated ashlar limestone walls with tooled limestone quoin stones and chamfered plinth. Limestone block with text and date to south-west corner. Round-headed lancet window openings to nave, paired to transept-like projection and north porch and having raised tooled limestone surrounds, sills and voussoirs and having lead-lined lattice windows. Oval rose window with tooled limestone surround, mullion and transom and lead-lined stained glass. Square-headed openings to gables having ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber louvers. Square-headed door opening to porch projection having tooled limestone block-and-start surround and replacement timber panelled door, and limestone stepped approach. Painted rendered walls to interior with timber floor and stepped marble platform to former altar. Rendered panelled barrel-vaulted ceiling. Enclosed graveyard to east having low limestone enclosing wall with cast-iron railings and gate. Rubble limestone wall enclosing site.
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