Presentation Convent

Convent/nunnery in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1845–1860

Detached ten-bay two-storey over basement Gothic Revival convent, built 1848 - 1856, on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard comprising eight-bay two-storey central block with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays to north and to south, ten-bay two-storey over part-raised basement wing to south having single-bay four-stage tower on a circular plan, eight-bay two-storey recessed wing to east with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced engaged flanking bays, six-bay double-height wing to north incorporating chapel with two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch, and three-bay single-storey wing with dormer attic to north. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Pitched slate roofs (conical to tower; gabled to porch to sacristy; lean-to to dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rubble sandstone chimney stacks, cut-stone coping (with cross finials to apexes to chapel), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble sandstone walls with stepped buttresses, and cut-limestone quoins to corners. Combination of lancet and pointed-arch window openings (some in paired, bipartite and tripartite arrangement) with some square-headed and slit-style openings having cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, and squared rubble sandstone voussoirs. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows with some fixed-pane

Type:
Convent/nunnery

Period:
1845–1860

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.25°N, 7.13°W

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