Bon Sauveur Convent

Detached eight-bay single- and two-storey Catholic chapel, c.1915, comprising eight-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey flanking bays with half-attics, four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-east and to south-west, three-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east, and three-bay single-storey chapel to south-west. Pitched slate roof (hipped to flanking bays behind parapets; lean-to to side aisles; pitched to sacristy and to chapel) with decorative clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having gabled bellcote to apex to south-east (stepped buttress base supporting profile-headed opening with cast-iron bell, cut-stone profiled coping to gable, and cross finial to apex), cross finials to apexes to remainder, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having corbels. Sandstone ashlar walls with full-height polygonal corner piers to nave extending into limestone ashlar panelled pinnacles on paired stringcourses having moulded capping with finials, moulded dressings to gable, cut-sandstone battlemented corner piers to flanking bays terminating battlemented parapets, cut-sandstone battlemented corner piers to north-west, to sacristy, and to chapel. Pointed-arch window openings to nave (forming clere-storey) and to side aisles with cut-sandstone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and cut-sandstone mullions forming paired trefoil-headed openings with quatrefoil to arch. Pointed-arch window openings to south-east (entrance) and to north-west (chancel) with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, cut-stone mullions and tracery (forming four-light trefoil-headed arrangement to south-east, and five-light trefoil-headed arrangement to north-west with quatrefoils to arches), and hood mouldings over supporting cut-stone voussoirs. Pointed-arch window openings to flanking bays with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, cut-stone mullions and tracery (forming paired trefoil-headed arrangement with overlights), and cut-stone voussoirs over. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to half-attic with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Trefoil-headed window opening to sacristy (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows to all window openings. Pointed-arch door opening to south-east with two cut-stone steps, cut-stone block-and-start surround having moulded chamfered reveal, hood moulding over supporting cut-stone voussoirs, and timber panelled double doors having decorative wrought iron hinges. Pointed-arch door opening to sacristy with cut-stone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveal, and timber panelled door having wrought iron hinges. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch supporting gallery to first floor to south-east, timber floor to central aisle in herring-bone pattern, carved timber pews, pointed-arch arcade to side aisles on polished posts having foliate capitals, moulded soffits with hood mouldings over on consoles, decorative Gothic-style fittings to altar, groin vaulted ceiling having moulded plasterwork ribs extending down into clustered colonettes on consoles, and coffered ceilings to side aisles having round relieving arches supported by consoles. Set back from road in grounds shared with Bon Sauveur Convent.