Chapel, Herdmanston is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Chapel.
Chapel, Herdmanston
- WRENN ID
- under-wattle-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NT 471 698
- Coordinates
- 55.91847, -2.84705
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel at Herdmanston dates back to the 13th century and was rebuilt around 1840. It is the remaining part of a former chapel built by Baron St Clairs, which later served as a burial vault. The structure is made of large cream ashlar blocks and features a slab roof. It has a rectangular plan measuring approximately 30 by 14 feet.
The eastern gable has a doorway with pilasters flanking a blinded pointed arch panel that springs above a cornice of a quasi-pedimented gablehead. The entrance includes angle pilasters and two-leaf boarded doors from 1840, adorned with decorative cast-iron fittings and a carved timber panel. There is a small pointed opening in the western gable, which is currently blocked. The northern elevation is blank, while the southern elevation has a centrally located window that is also blocked.
Inside, the chapel features a vaulted and white-washed interior, with two monumental slabs, one dating from 1594. There are several later memorial wall tablets present. A former door, which is studded and has a mask view-hole, is currently kept inside the chapel.
Local climate
Chapel, Herdmanston receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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