The Mount
Chapel (19th Century)
Site Name The Mount
Classification Chapel (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Carnsalloch Chapel
Canmore ID 65868
Site Number NX98SE 58
NGR NX 97467 80953
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65868
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmahoe
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX98SE 58 97467 80953.
For Carnsalloch House, see NX98SE 84.
Small private chapel with apse and crypt. Decorated Gothic. Stugged and snecked red ashlar with droved or polished dressings. 2 bays, stepped buttresses, gableted above eaves, 5-sided apse at east, elaborately carved, pointed-arched entrance between 2 buttresses in west gable: studded 2-leaf door with decorative hinges below shallow pointed arch, ball-flower moulded reveals, initials AI and LJ in spandrels: tall tympanum with curvilinear tracery and (broken) leaded lights; crest in gable above. Pointed windows to bays and to aspe (east window reaches above eaves): all openings hood-moulded, with label stops. Off-set below cill level; eaves cornice; blocking course with shields over openings; stone flagged and ribbed roof with decorative ridging. Approached from east by 3 flights of stone steps.
Built for Johnstones of Carnsalloch. (Historic Scotland)
