An Old Photograph of Bayswater.

This old photograph of the Bayswater Convent was sent to us by Judie Chambers from Our Lady of Sion School in Worthing. The following description came with the photograph.

Convent of Our Lady of Sion, Chepstow Villas

 

This building, consisting of four storeys over a basement, with an attic storey, is constructed of dark red bricks, and is situated at the corner of Chepstow Villas and Denbigh Road. It was designed by A. Young in 1892–3, (ref. 64) and is one of the bulkiest buildings in the area, quite foreign to the adjacent stucco-faced houses. The style owes much to Dutch and North German institutional building of the period, the façade being enlivened by carved, moulded and rubbed brickwork. There is a giant order of Ionic pilasters which rise from the first floor to support a simplified entablature with a large stone cornice carried on brackets. A tower of mildly Italianate appearance stands at the south-west corner of the building.