The Mount

The Mount, also known as Carnsalloch Chapel, is a small private chapel built around 1850 for the Johnstones of Carnsalloch. Designed by E B Lamb, it is constructed of stugged and snecked red ashlar with droved or polished dressings, and is executed in the Decorated Gothic style. The chapel has an apse and a crypt. The west gable features an elaborately carved, pointed-arched entrance flanked by stepped buttresses, with a gableted upper portion. The entrance has a studded two-leaf door with decorative hinges, set within ball-flower moulded reveals, and spandrels bearing the initials AI and LJ. Above is a tall tympanum with curvilinear tracery and broken leaded lights, topped by a crest in the gable. Pointed windows are present in both bays and the east window extends above the eaves; all openings are hood-moulded with label stops set offset below cill level. The building incorporates an eaves cornice, a blocking course with shields above the openings, and a stone-flagged and ribbed roof with decorative ridging. A three-flight staircase of stone leads to the chapel from the east. The chapel is now disused and neglected.