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The Mount
Burial Vault (19th Century), Chapel (19th Century)
Site Name The Mount
Classification Burial Vault (19th Century), 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)
