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Latitude: 55.064 / 55°3'50"N
Longitude: -3.6002 / 3°36'0"W
OS Eastings: 297899
OS Northings: 575562
OS Grid: NX978755
Mapcode National: GBR 399W.CH
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.NZT7
Plus Code: 9C7R397X+JW
Entry Name: Chapel, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries
Listing Name: Craigs Road, St Joseph's College, Chapel and Freestanding Lamp
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362662
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26148
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Craigs Road, St Joseph's R.c. College, Chapel
ID on this website: 200362662
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Chapel Architectural structure
Charles J Menart of Glasgow. Foundation stone and
rainwater heads dated 1923. Romanesque chapel;
cruciform-plan with aisles and higher chancel with
gabled cross-ridge roof; curved apse. Square tower at
liturgical west gable. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with
polished dressings, round-headed openings throughout,
some (including main door at foot of tower) with columned
jambs with scalloped capitals. Tower has curved corners,
louvred bipartite belfry stage, corbelled parapet
enclosing cross-finialled elongated and pointed circular
dome. Nave 4 bays at clerestory, 3-bay aisles. Chancel
gables with 3-light windows below relieving arches. First
World War memorial plaque and crucifix set in to apse.
Slated roofs. Interior: round-headed chancel and
transept arches and aisle arcades; gallery with oak front
and supporting organ tubes; altar rail marble and
cast-iron, now cut through, with modern altar in crossing,
nearby. Original gothic altar, within chancel, is dated
29th October 1903, large and elaborate, with pinnacled
canopies; marbled timber. Leaded glass windows.
Free-standing battered, circular, red ashlar lamp, to W
of main door, with wrought-iron lantern.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Foundation stone
inscribed "This stone was laid by Right Rev Bishop McCarthy
DD XXII-V-MCMXXIII". Replaced corrugated iron chapel said to
have been brought from Greenock.
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