Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate, Maxwelton House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.

Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate, Maxwelton House

WRENN ID
second-buttress-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
OS grid reference
NX 825 895
Coordinates
55.18616, -3.84672
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an 1868 Episcopal chapel, of rectangular plan and three bays, originally a private chapel at Maxwelton House. The building is executed in a Gothic style. The exterior is constructed of coursed bullfaced pink ashlar with polished dressings. It features windows with cusped-headed lights, and gable windows with cusped tracery. Windows to the south wall have three lights, while the chancel window is a single light recessed in a shallow 2-centred arched panel. A gabled open porch, featuring a pointed doorway, is located at the west end of the south wall. A gabled bellcote sits atop the west gable. The roof is slate, graded in layers, and features decorative cast-iron cresting along with straight skews and gabletted skewputts. A vestry is attached to the north side.

Inside, the windows are leaded and dated between 1868 and 1880. There is good stencil decoration at the east end, and an octagonal pulpit. A gabled lych gate, constructed of oak on red ashlar supports and featuring cusped ornament, stands to the northwest and dates to 1884. The building remains in ecclesiastical use.

Local climate

Episcopal Chapel And Lych Gate, Maxwelton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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