Chapel Finian

Heritage listing

Date Added 30/11/1981 Last Date Amended 02/12/1999 Type Ecclesiastical: chapel; enclosure; well Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Mochrum NGR NX 27844 48927 Coordinates 227844, 548927 — The monument consists of a small 10th- or 11th-century chapel within a stone-walled enclosure, close to the shore on the raised beach at Corwall Port. The foundations of this small rectangular chapel, 6.7m by 4.1m internally, are oriented E-W. It has a S doorway and there are three buttresses on each of the side-walls, one in the centre and one against each corner. Excavation in 1950 revealed evidence of a stone bench, possibly encased in wood, set against the S part of the inner face of the E wall. The masonry is mortared and includes large upright stones set on edge to form foundation-courses and door-jambs. The building is tightly enclosed within the footings of a drystone boundary wall, and a stone-lined well lies to the SW, partly under the road-side dyke. The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 40m NW-SE by 25m SW-NE and includes the chapel, its enclosure, the well and an area to the SE likely to contain archaeological evidence for a priest's house and a graveyard. It is marked in red on the accompanying map.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.