Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy

Attached seven-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic chapel, built 1906, on a T-shaped plan comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower chancel to north having two-bay single-storey entrance wing to north-east with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch, three-bay single-storey over basement sacristy wing to north-west, and three-bay two-storey connecting wing to south-west. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack to chancel on limestone ashlar base, cut-limestone coping to gables having wrought iron cross finials to apexes, cut-limestone buttressed gabled bellcote to gable to south (with pointed-arch aperture having bull-nose reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping over having wrought iron cross finial to apex), and square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having consoles. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls on limestone ashlar plinth with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, stepped buttresses (clasping corner buttresses to south), and moulded stringcourse to south elevation. Trefoil-headed window openings (some paired in pointed-arch frames having quatrefoils over to arches; pointed-arch window openings to porch) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting inscribed voussoirs, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Rose window to gable to south in pointed-arch recess with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having Corinthian colonette reveals, hood moulding over, colonette mullions forming six-light round-headed arrangement centred on quatrefoil, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel on carved cut-limestone sill course with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, Y-mullions and tracery forming five-part trefoil-headed arrangement having quatrefoils over flanking cinquefoil, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to porch with cut-stone step, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having decorative wrought iron hinges. Square-headed window openings to wing to north-west (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and one-over-one timber sash windows having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening to wing to north-west approached by flight of four cut-stone steps with cast-iron bootscraper, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having decorative wrought iron hinges. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to connecting wing with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to connecting wing with cut-limestone block-and-start surround (incorporating lintel) having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in shared grounds.