Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Convent
Roath, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 May 2002
- Locality
- Tredegarville
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Roath
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48601, -3.16838
- Cadw reference
- 26655
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the E end of The Walk facing East Grove.
History
A convent built in the final quarter of the C19 for the Rosminian Sisters of Providence, who established the nearby Heathfield House school in 1878, subsequently known as Our Lady's Convent School. The school closed in 1997 when the Order left the convent.
Exterior
A 3-storey 3-bay late Victorian classical house. The lower storey is rusticated ashlar, and above a billeted cornice, the upper storeys are coursed rock-faced Pennant sandstone with lighter ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. A hipped slate roof has a projecting eaves on corbels and plain cornice. The R side has 2 ashlar stacks, the L side a single stack. Windows are mainly 2-pane sashes. The central doorway has 2 pairs of Corinthian columns supporting the entablature, and a half-glazed door with plain overlight. Above it is a keyed segmental window in an architrave with a segmental pediment on consoles, with relief-moulded tympanum. The outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows, which have Corinthian pilasters at the angles in the lower storey. The windows have segmental-headed lights with keystones and the window lower L retains the stained glass window of a former chapel. Both bays have an open balustraded parapet. The upper storey has 5 windows in eared architraves with key stones, comprising a 2-pane sash window to the centre, and cross windows R and L.
The L side wall is of Pennant sandstone with rusticated quoins. It has openings offset to the L side, comprising 2 segmental-headed sash windows in the lower and middle storeys, separated by an ashlar band, a triple sash window in the upper storey with segmental-headed lights. A rear wing is lower. A YMCA building is attached to the R side (formerly part of Our Lady's Convent School).
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for architectural interest as a well-detailed classical house that makes an important contribution to the historic character of Tredegarville conservation area. Historic interest for association with other Catholic establishments in the neighbourhood, especially St Peter's Church.
Nearby in the register
- Catholic Church of St PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 28 The ParadeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coleg Glan HafrenEducationunder 1 mi
- Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Peter including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.