Chapel, Glenlochar is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Chapel.
Chapel, Glenlochar
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cobalt-flax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1981
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NX 726 643
- Coordinates
- 54.95779, -3.99073
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel at Glenlochar, built around 1840, is a small Gothic structure located a quarter mile west of Glenlochar Bridge, within a rubble-walled enclosure that serves as the burial place of Admiral Gordon.
The chapel features a buttressed gabled design divided into two sections: a wider two-bay nave to the west and a narrower chancel to the east, which is supported by three pairs of sandstone buttresses. The nave has rubble walling with rock-faced granite buttresses on the chancel, and polished sandstone dressings throughout.
The western entrance has a pointed arch portal with nook shafts, a delicate cable hood-mould, and carved stops, topped by a quatrefoil panel. The chapel's windows are bipartite and trefoil-headed with opaque glass, while the granite chancel has a single pointed arch window on each side. The chancel is capped with a deep plain parapet and both sections of the chapel have steeply-pitched slate roofs, adorned with sandstone skews and skewputts.
Inside, the chapel is empty, featuring timber strip panelling for the wainscot and a pointed chancel arch. The surrounding rubble-walled enclosure is partly damaged and has granite coping, with a pointed-arch gateway that includes a timber door.
Local climate
Chapel, Glenlochar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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