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church/chapel — Grace Park Road

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church/chapel — Grace Park Road
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Attached Gothic Revival chapel, built 1868, four-bay south block having gabled porch to west gable and bellcote to east gable, northwest block running north from close to east end of south block and linking to main convent buildings and also having corridor along west side with monopitched roof, and third northeast block running eastwards in re-entrant corner of other two blocks. Chimneystack to rear of northeast block. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge cresting, cut stone copings to gables with carved stone kneelers and sculpted cross finials to apexes, carved stone pediment and round-headed opening to bellcote, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked stone walling with cut granite quoins and having chamfered stone surrounds to openings, and with platband to each gable of south block. Round-headed niches to east and west gables of south block, with statues. South block has pointed-arch window openings to south wall with stained-glass windows; easternmost window is double-light with trefoil heads and has quatrefoil above, and gables have sexfoil windows below statue recesses. Northeast block has Y-tracery double-light window to east gable with quatrefoil above. Triangular-headed window openings to east and west elevations of northwest block. Pointed-arch principal doorway to porch with carved hood-moulding; porch flanked by trefoil-headed windows to west gable of this block with carved sill course.

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