Laurieknowe Squash and Racketball Club (former Maxwelltown Chapel), School Lane, Dumfries

Built in 1843, the former Maxwelltown Chapel is a church designed in the Early English Gothic style. It is a largely rectangular building constructed of coursed red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. The chapel is set back from Laurieknowe, a main road through Dumfries, and forms a group with the former manse and gatepiers, which are listed separately. Currently, the building operates as a sports centre.

The principal south elevation has three bays of ashlar stonework and a central, three-stage tower with a crenelated parapet and clasp buttresses topped with pinnacles. The tower has an arched central doorway with an ogee hoodmould (lacking a finial), a hood-moulded lancet window at the second stage, and single Y-traceried windows at the upper stage. The tower is flanked by tall, hood-moulded lancet windows and three-stage clasp buttresses with pinnacles, now without their finials.

The east and west elevations each have four bays, with tall lancet windows between pinnacle buttresses. The gabled north elevation features a pinnacle at the apex and two tall lancet windows flanking a single-storey, rectangular porch with a pitched roof and an octagonal stack at the apex.

A single-storey, L-plan addition to the northwest of the church, potentially a vestry added in 1939, is part of the building. Later 20th-century additions to the northeast corner and east elevation are not included within the listing.

The chapel has a pitched, slated roof with a small stack on the east of the north gable. Replacement plate glass windows are present on the west elevation, while the majority of openings on the other elevations have been blocked or covered.

The interior was converted for use as a leisure centre in the late 20th century. No elements of the original 19th-century decorative scheme survive. Squash courts are located on the ground floor, and a studio is on the first floor with a suspended ceiling. Earlier fabric might exist behind the modern finishes, but it was not visible during inspection.