Chapel, Cardoness is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1991. Chapel.
Chapel, Cardoness
- WRENN ID
- mired-lead-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1991
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NX 568 534
- Coordinates
- 54.85514, -4.23103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel at Cardoness, built in 1768, is a small rectangular single-chamber structure located on rocky terrain. It features large rubble masonry with pinning and harl pointing, and has a battered base course. The chapel includes pointed openings and saw-tooth coping at the skews. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there is a cross finial at the top. It has a modern door and window shutter.
Local climate
Chapel, Cardoness 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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