Convent Of Our Lady Of Mercy

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SE COLLEGE STREET 646-1/13/161 (North East side) 12/07/72 Convent of Our Lady of Mercy

GV II

Convent, now partly an old people's home. 1845-48 and 1857. By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, with later C19 additions. Altered late C20 by Bartlett Gray of West Bridgford. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, with plain gable and ridge stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, coped gables. Plinth, first floor band, coped gables. Windows are mainly glazing bar casements with stone mullions and surrounds. 2 and 3 storeys plus attics; 9 x 6 windows. 4 ranges enclosing a quadrangle and cloister. East front has 8 cross casements to ground floor, with a single light window and pointed arched door to right. Above, 8 similar windows, and above again, 6 smaller transomed windows flanked by single cross casements. Attics have 6 gabled dormers. To right, the projecting east gable of the chapel, with 3 stepped buttresses. 2 segmental pointed windows, 3-lights, and in the left return, a similar window. Above, a 5-light pointed arched window with Decorated tracery. South side has a Decorated window, 2-lights, and north side has 4 similar windows. The remaining outer sides of the quadrangle have minimal openings and features. Inside the quadrangle: south side, 2 storeys, has 5 chamfered pointed arches forming a cloister, the east arch with a late C20 glazed screen and door. Above, 6 traceried flat-headed windows, 3-lights. West side has 6 mullioned windows, 3 lights, enlarged late C20. Above, 6 lancets with transoms. Attics have 6 gabled dormers. North and east sides have lean-to corridors, 2 storeys, with 3-light mullioned windows to the ground floor and 3-light pointed arched windows above. North side has dormers. At the north-east corner, a square stair tower, 3 storeys, with mullioned windows and pyramidal roof. Above and behind, a square bell turret with 2-light openings and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: chapel, single unit, rendered, with stencilled decoration. Redecorated and reseated 1990-91. Scissor braced roof with painted framed panels to 3 eastern bays. Traceried panelled dado and stencilled frieze. East end has a blind arcaded ashlar reredos with a large figure and bracket each side, and C19 stained glass window. Side windows have stained glass. West end has 2 pointed arched doors and a pointed arched opening above, with organ gallery. South-west door has moulded opening and stoups each side. Fittings include original marble and alabaster altar with relief panel, by Hardman. First floor cloister, to south, has panelled wagon roof and 6 ogee-headed niches. Corridors have chamfered pointed arches and roll-moulded doorways. Stone winder stair with iron framing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 242).

Listing NGR: SK5662340030