Hoselaw Chapel is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Chapel.
Hoselaw Chapel
- WRENN ID
- inner-railing-poplar
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NT 801 317
- Coordinates
- 55.57907, -2.31613
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hoselaw Chapel, designed by Peter MacGregor Chalmers around 1905, is a rectangular-plan, four-bay church featuring a bowed apse at the east and a lean-to vestry on the north side. The building is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, with some areas rake-jointed and slightly bull-faced, and has sandstone ashlar dressings. It includes sandstone quoins and long and short sandstone surrounds to round-arched openings, with chamfered cills.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a chamfered surround to a boarded timber door located in the outer left bay, while the remaining bays to the right contain irregularly spaced narrow single windows. A small, square-headed window is set in the bowed apse, recessed to the outer right.
On the north elevation, the nave features a projecting lean-to vestry in the outer left bay, with small single windows in two bays to the right. There is a battered wallhead stack that breaks the eaves in the outer right bay, and the bowed apse is recessed to the outer left.
The west elevation showcases a tall, round-arched window centered in the gable. The east elevation presents the bowed apse centered in the gable, which includes a simple ashlar bellcote with a bell and a cruciform finial.
The chapel predominantly has plain leaded glazing, with a single stained glass window centered in the apse and a large stained glass window in the west gable. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features raised stone skews. There is a battered wallhead stack on the north side with a single can.
Inside, the nave has bare sandstone walls and deeply chamfered reveals around the openings. The ceiling is an open boarded timber design, and the space contains individual timber chairs. A simple timber lectern is present, along with a droved sandstone, circular-plan covered font that has carved decorative banding. Access to the vestry is through a boarded timber door, and the vestry also has rake-jointed bare sandstone walls. Steps lead to a large arch that divides the nave from the raised apse, where a timber communion table is set. The floor is tiled, and bare sandstone walls support a decorative fresco featuring angels holding a banner inscribed with "Alleluia for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." Below this fresco is a single stained glass window depicting Christ.
The chapel is enclosed by rubble-coped rubble boundary walls that create a near square-plan site, with a cast-iron pedestrian entry gate.
Local climate
Hoselaw Chapel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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