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
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NX 761 759
- Coordinates
- 55.06297, -3.94012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel in Corsock, built in 1839, is said to be based on the designs of Wharton Chapel in Cheshire, with plans provided by Captain Fletcher. This hall church features a polygonal apse to the east and a squat tower to the northwest. The exterior is constructed with coursed rubble walling and has buttressed angles and nave. The four-bay nave is divided by gablet buttresses and has single lancets with deep moulded reveals. A small gabled entrance porch is located at the southeast, featuring a pointed-arch doorway with a recessed door. The five-sided buttressed apse at the east gable has facetted slate roofs, and there is a triple lancet on the west gable. The squat buttressed tower at the northwest has a pointed-arch door at the ground level, a double string course above, and three louvred lancets in the upper stage. The tower is topped with a deep plain coped parapet over a deep cornice, and the roofs are slate with saw-toothed skews. A bellcote or gablet finial is present on the east gable.
Inside, the chapel features stained glass in the west gable and one nave light, signed by Arthur J Dix. There is a memorial window on the south elevation dedicated to the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who was born in the same parish. The interior also boasts a hammerbeam roof and a carved octagonal oak pulpit.
Local climate
Chapel, Corsock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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