Chapel, Corsock is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church.
Chapel, Corsock
- WRENN ID
- quiet-attic-ivy
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
- Said to have been based on the designs of Wharton Chapel in Cheshire, plans provided by one Captain Fletcher. Hall church with polygonal apse to east, squat tower to northwest. Coursed rubble walling, buttressed angles and nave. Four-bay nave divided by gablet buttresses, single lancets with deep moulded reveals. Small gabled entrance porch to southeast, pointed-arch doorway, recessed door. Five-sided buttressed apse to east gable with facetted slate roofs. Triple lancet to west gable. Squat buttressed tower to northwest; pointed-arch door to ground, double string course above, Three louvred lancets to upper stage. Deep plain coped parapet over deep cornice. Slate roofs, saw toothed skews. Bellcote/gablet finial to east gable.
Interior: stained glass to west gable and one nave light signed Arthur J Dix. Memorial window to south elevation dedicated to the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) born in the same parish. Hammerbeam roof. Carved octagonal oak pulpit.
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