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Description

CHAPEL: Reginald Fairlie, architect. Built 1933-5. Tall, rectangular plan, 6-bay chapel, with full height buttressed, semi-octagonal apse to west, lower, projecting stair to organ loft on gabled and buttressed east wall. Rendered, with polished ashlar dressings and cills, on bull-faced ashlar plinth. SOUTH ELEVATION: door at east under round arch with sculptured tympanum; figure in canopied niche over door; tall, paired lancets with simple tracery. Simple parapet, raised over east gable. Shallow pitch copper roof.

INTERIOR: piers between windows support pointed arches; organ gallery at west end, instrument by J W Walker and Sons, 1936; oak-panelled chancel and furnishings; 2 stained glass chancel windows by Sister Callista, that to east inserted after circa 1944. Linked at east end by 2-storey rendered block, probably also by Fairlie, to (1920) convent residences. Link has ground floor pushed forward under penticed roof and arcaded, imitating cloisters.

CONVENT: Dated 1920. 2-Storey and attic, residential convent in 2 continuous parts with 2-storey link to chapel's S elevation, E end (see above). Red sandstone ashlar dressings, harl. Deep base course to principal sections. Battered cill course and ogee-detailed lintels to 1st floor windows. Ashlar blocking course at wallhead. Gabled dormers at regular intervals.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION: bays grouped 1-3-1-4-1 with single bays slightly advanced framing functional parts. Entrance bay at centre of 3 bays to left in advanced ashlar 3-bay porch spanning between advanced bays; segmental-arched recess with chamfered jambs, 2-leaf panelled and part-glazed door, flanked by pilasters rising as gablet capped piers and single windows and angled, gablet capped buttresses; hoodmoulded above doorway with carved labelstops and heraldic panel, latin motto to ribbon scroll, letters 'ND' with cross; porch with decorative, pierced and cusped blocking course. Bipartite windows to 1st floor of 3-bay centrepiece. Single bays flanking with full-height, 4-light canted windows, gablet capped die to wallhead behind. 4 recessed bays to right with 4 regular windows at ground, close run of 7 small bipartite windows at 1st floor, flanked by single windows. Outer bay to right with full-height projecting 5-light window, pierced and cusped blocking course with heraldic panel at centre, and gabled capped dies to wallhead behind.

END ELEVATION: 4-bay with run of 1st floor windows as to entrance elevation with 8 small bipartite windows.Thick timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Grey slate roof to bays toward chapel, purple slates to dormitory range. Coped stone stack. Good rainwater hoppers.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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