The Poor Clare Convent at 13 Hill Lane was founded in 1904 by nuns from Le Puy in France. An existing 1806 house by John Kent was converted into the convent house and a new chapel added. The convent buildings were bombed in 1940. Some damage was sustained by the main building (image below), and the chapel received a direct hit and was completely destroyed. The nuns moved out, eventually to found a new convent at Trafalgar Lodge in Shirley Warren. The convent house survived and was later converted into offices. It is now the site of Queens Court Flats.
Poor Clare Convent
A view of the portico on the west front of the convent, photographed in 1941, after the building had been damaged by bombing.
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