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Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate, Maxwelton House

A Category B Listed Building in Mid and Upper Nithsdale, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.1862 / 55°11'10"N

Longitude: -3.8467 / 3°50'48"W

OS Eastings: 282517

OS Northings: 589542

OS Grid: NX825895

Mapcode National: GBR 18KG.ZQ

Mapcode Global: WH4TP.WXD3

Plus Code: 9C7R55P3+F8

Entry Name: Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate, Maxwelton House

Listing Name: Maxwelton House Episcopal Chapel and Lych Gate

Listing Date: 26 June 1986

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342759

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10325

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Maxwelton House, Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate

ID on this website: 200342759

Location: Glencairn

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Parish: Glencairn

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

Dated 1868. Small, rectangular-plan, 3-bay private chapel. Gothic; windows with cusped-headed lights, gable windows with cusped tracery. Coursed bullfaced pink ashlar with polished dressings. Gabled open porch (pointed doorway) at west end of south wall, 3-light windows to long south wall and single light chancel window (these windows recessed in shallow 2-centred arched panels); gabled bellcote over west gable;

straight skews; gabletted skewputts; all roofed with graded slates; decorative cast-iron cresting. Vestry to north.

Interior: leaded windows dated 1868-1880; good stencil ornament at east; octagonal pulpit. Gabled lych gate to north west dated 1884; oak, on red ashlar supports; cusped ornament.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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