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Convent of St Catherine of Sienna

This house occupies the site of the last fragment of the Convent of St Catherine of Sienna erected 1517, demolished in 1871. "And thus the Lindesay spoke: 'Thus clamour still the war-notes when The King to mass his way has ta'en, Or to Saint Katharine's of Sienne, Or Chapel of Saint Rocque." - Marmion

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