Survey Data

Reg No

22305001


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Social


Original Use

Convent/nunnery


In Use As

Convent/nunnery


Date

1910 - 1915


Coordinates

186480, 179396


Date Recorded

27/07/2004


Date Updated

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Description

Detached U-plan two-storey convent, built 1913, with eleven-bay front elevation with entrance breakfront and advanced terminating bays with two-storey returns to rear, one of latter with canted bay window to gable end. Cruciform-plan chapel to north end and recent single-bay extension to south. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and cross finials. Roughcast rendered walls with render pilasters and plat-bands and with niches to front gables. Entrance bay has open-topped pediment with statue, other gables have open-bed pediments with dentils and supported on channelled pilasters. Segmental-arch openings to first floor and round-headed and Venetian-style windows to ground, all with replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Central bay has Venetian-style doorcase having marble columns with limestone Ionic capitals, render cornice and timber panelled door with over-light and fanlight. Chapel has rendered buttresses, round-headed window openings with stained glass, and timber doors.

Appraisal

This convent is built on the site of the former women's prison. Standing among the remaining prison buildings it offers diversity of texture and style. The varying windows give the building an interesting rhythm and the symmetry of design and attention to decoration show the apparent architectural design.