Bon Sauveur Convent

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1910–1920

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 o

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1910–1920

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.09°N, 7.70°W

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