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st. augustine’s priory, ealing: altar of chapel

PEACOCK, BEWLAY, AND COOKE, ARCHITECTS

IRMINGHAM.—The three illustrations
here given relate

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JJ undertaking re-
cently carried out from
the designs of Messrs.
Peacock, Bewlay, and
Cooke, architects of this
town, for the Canonesses
Regular of St. Augustine,
a community which
originated in Paris in
1634, and removed to
England in 1911. The
site of their new con-
vent, a general view of
which is shown on the
next page, is a tract of
twelve acres in Hanger Hill,
Ealing, on the western
outskirts of London. In
addition to the cloisters,
community rooms, par-
lours, refectories, and other
requirements of the nuns,

provision has been made for school
buildings of the most modem type
to accommodate boarding and day
scholars. For the use of resident
pupils and the nuns there is an infir-
mary wing, and also a fully equipped
laundry building. The interior of the
building has been finished very simply
throughout, but a feature has been
made of the cloisters, which have a
barrel ceiling decorated with enriched
plaster, also a pavement of dull green
tiles and walls of a grey colour. The
buildings externally are finished with
silver-grey rough-cast, the angle piers
and the plinth being faced with thin
bricks of a broken colour, and the
roofs are covered with thick, hand-
made, sand-faced tiles with bonnet
hips. The chapel buildings contain,
in addition to the chapel, a chapter-
house, a priests’ sacristy, nuns’ sacristy,
and a tribune. For bedridden nuns
there are provided two rooms with
windows overlooking the chapel. The
chapel itself is carried out in the
Byzantine style, and the walls inside
are faced with rough plaster finished
white with a high skirting finished black, the

ST. AUGUSTINE S PRIORY, EALING : THE CHAPEL

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