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

Built in 1843, the former Maxwelltown Chapel is a largely rectangular-plan church designed in the Early English Gothic style. The chapel is built of coursed red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a square-plan tower at the centre of the symmetrical south elevation. Set back from Laurieknowe, a principal road through Dumfries, the former church forms a group with the former manse and gatepiers. The building is currently in use as a sports centre.

The principal (south) elevation is three-bays with ashlar stonework and a central, three-stage tower which has a crenelated parapet and clasp buttresses topped by pinnacles. The tower features an arched central doorway with an ogee hoodmould (missing finial), a hood-moulded lancet window at the second stage and single Y-traceried windows to the upper stage. The tower is flanked by tall hood-moulded lancet windows and three-stage clasp buttresses with pinnacles, now missing their finials.

The east and west elevations are four-bays, with tall lancet windows interspaced by pinnacle buttresses. The gabled north elevation has a pinnacle apex and two tall lancet windows flanking a single-storey, rectangular-plan porch with a pitched roof and an octagonal stack at the apex.

There is a single-storey, L-plan, addition to the northwest of the church which may be the new vestry recorded as being added in 1939. There are single-storey, later-20th century additions to the northeast corner and east elevation. The 1939 vestry addition to the west and the later 20th century additions to the north and east are all excluded from the listing.

The former church has a pitched, slated roof with a small stack on the east of the north gable. The west elevation features replacement plate glass windows. The majority of openings on the other elevations have been blocked or covered up.

The interior of the former church was converted for use as a leisure centre in the late 20th century and no features of the 19th century decorative scheme are apparent. There are squash courts on the ground floor and a studio on the first floor with a suspended ceiling. Some earlier fabric may survive behind the modern finishes but this was not evident on site.

To the south of the church towards Laurieknowe there is an associated manse dating to the later 19th century and a pair of octagonal gatepiers which may date to the earlier 19th century. The manse and gatepiers are listed separately (LB26264).