Chapel, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries

Charles J Menart of Glasgow. Foundation stone and

rainwater heads dated 1923. Romanesque chapel;

cruciform-plan with aisles and higher chancel with

gabled cross-ridge roof; curved apse. Square tower at

liturgical west gable. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with

polished dressings, round-headed openings throughout,

some (including main door at foot of tower) with columned

jambs with scalloped capitals. Tower has curved corners,

louvred bipartite belfry stage, corbelled parapet

enclosing cross-finialled elongated and pointed circular

dome. Nave 4 bays at clerestory, 3-bay aisles. Chancel

gables with 3-light windows below relieving arches. First

World War memorial plaque and crucifix set in to apse.

Slated roofs. Interior: round-headed chancel and

transept arches and aisle arcades; gallery with oak front

and supporting organ tubes; altar rail marble and

cast-iron, now cut through, with modern altar in crossing,

nearby. Original gothic altar, within chancel, is dated

29th October 1903, large and elaborate, with pinnacled

canopies; marbled timber. Leaded glass windows.

Free-standing battered, circular, red ashlar lamp, to W

of main door, with wrought-iron lantern.