Chapel, Corsock

A Category B Listed Building in Parton, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.063 / 55°3'46"N

Longitude: -3.9401 / 3°56'24"W

OS Eastings: 276190

OS Northings: 575997

OS Grid: NX761759

Mapcode National: GBR 09XW.SW

Mapcode Global: WH4VF.F0ZG

Plus Code: 9C7R3375+5X

Entry Name: Chapel, Corsock

Listing Name: Corsock Chapel, Church of Scotland

Listing Date: 4 November 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350947

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17093

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Corsock Church
Corsock Parish Church
Corsock, Chapel

ID on this website: 200350947

Location: Parton

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Castle Douglas and Crocketford

Parish: Parton

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Tagged with: Chapel Architectural structure

Description

1839. Said to have been based on the designs of Wharton Chapel in Cheshire, plans provided by one Captain Fletcher. Hall church with polygonal apse to east, squat tower to northwest. Coursed rubble walling, buttressed angles and nave. Four-bay nave divided by gablet buttresses, single lancets with deep moulded reveals. Small gabled entrance porch to southeast, pointed-arch doorway, recessed door. Five-sided buttressed apse to east gable with facetted slate roofs. Triple lancet to west gable. Squat buttressed tower to northwest; pointed-arch door to ground, double string course above, Three louvred lancets to upper stage. Deep plain coped parapet over deep cornice. Slate roofs, saw toothed skews. Bellcote/gablet finial to east gable.

Interior: stained glass to west gable and one nave light signed Arthur J Dix. Memorial window to south elevation dedicated to the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) born in the same parish. Hammerbeam roof. Carved octagonal oak pulpit.

Statement of Interest

The Church was marketed for sale in November 2025.

Listed building record updated 2025.

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