Convent of Mercy — Cross Street

Detached school, built 1955, comprising three-storey main block facing south with single-bay gabled breakfront to centre, flat-roof porch to flanking bay to west, and having seven bays to east, ends of building being slightly recessed, and with additional two bays to east. Two-bay and three-bay slightly lower gabled returns to rear, latter with gabled porch. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks, and rendered barges to breakfront. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and quoins, with wall-mounted statuary to west gable on render corbel with curved render hood. Replacement uPVC windows throughout, square-headed and grouped in threes to upper floors of western bays, and paired and segmental-headed to ground floor with label-mouldings to paired windows and hood-mouldings to single openings, all with render sills. Pointed arch window to upper three-quarters of breakfront, with chamfered carved limestone surround and sill, having three tiers of triple ogee-headed lights, top tier having quatrefoils to spandrels, with latticed stained glass. Paired Tudor-arch window openings to sides of porch, with chamfered limestone surrounds and latticed stained glass. Eastern addition has ribbon windows to gable and rear has ribbon, square-headed and segmental windows, latter with hood-mouldings. Pointed arch window openings to porch with tooled limestone surrounds and leaded windows. Tudor-arch main entrance door opening with chamfered limestone surround having double-leaf timber panelled door with leaded overlight, approached by flight of render steps with wrought-iron railings. Segmental-headed door opening to east end of front elevation, with render hood-moulding and replacement uPVC door and overlight. Square-headed and segmental-headed doorways to rear with replacement uPVC doors. Playground and basketball courts to south and convent buildings to west.