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Latitude: 54.9578 / 54°57'28"N
Longitude: -3.9907 / 3°59'26"W
OS Eastings: 272625
OS Northings: 564386
OS Grid: NX726643
Mapcode National: GBR 0CK3.TK
Mapcode Global: WH4VS.NNV4
Plus Code: 9C6RX255+4P
Entry Name: Chapel, Glenlochar
Listing Name: Gordon Chapel, Quarter Mile West of Glenlochar Bridge
Listing Date: 28 May 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 334463
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3414
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Glenlochar, Chapel
ID on this website: 200334463
Location: Balmaghie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Dee and Glenkens
Parish: Balmaghie
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Circa 1840.
Small Gothic chapel situated quarter mile W of Glenlochar
Bridge within rubble walled enclosure; burial place of
Admiral Gordon.
CHAPEL: buttressed gabled building in 2 sections; wider 2-bay
nave to W with narrower chancel to E with 3 pairs of
sandstone buttresses. Rubble walling to nave quoins, rockfaced
granite with buttresses to chancel. Polished sandstone
dressings throughout.
Pointed arch portal to W with nook shafts, delicate cable
hood-mould and carved stops. Quatrefoil panel above door.
Bipartite trefoil-headed windows with opaque glass. Granite
chancel: single pointed arch window to both sides. Deep plain
parapet over chancel. Steeply-pitched slate roofs. Sandstone
skews and skewputts.
INTERIOR: empty; timber strip panelling to wainscott, pointed
chancel arch.
Rubble walled enclosure, partly damaged with granite coping. Pointed-arch gateway with timber door.
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