The Mount is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
The Mount
- WRENN ID
- errant-thatch-mint
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 809
- Coordinates
- 55.11234, -3.60892
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Mount sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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