Memorial Chapel And Burial-Ground, Kirkandrews is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Chapel.
Memorial Chapel And Burial-Ground, Kirkandrews
- WRENN ID
- dim-courtyard-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1905 and built for James Brown of Knockbrex. Small
rectangular rubble built chapel in rugged castellated
style with Arts and Crafts simplicity. Square tower with entrance porch to centre of W side.
W elevation with large round-headed windows flanking taller
projecting buttressed tower, round-arched doorway with mock
portcullis feature. E elevation with 3 large round headed
windows, all with small-pane leaded glazing in bronze frames. Projecting
embattled parapet supported on corbels, to NE angle corbelled
round turret/bartizan.
INTERIOR: unusual with neo- Jacobean flavour; exposed roof
beams, oak wainscot panelling with heavily pointed
exposed mannered random rubble walling above. Flanking
windows and panelled door, timber engaged columns with
foliate capitals support timber archivolt with carved
keystone. Large chimneypiece to N wall in rough rubble with
castellated lintel and round-arched fireplace.
Rubble boundary wall with coping, to W timber lych gate with
red ceramic tiled roof. Some tombstones to churchyard
including bronze plaque to James Brown of Knockbrex.
Detailed Attributes
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