Laurieknowe Squash and Racketball Club (former Maxwelltown Chapel), School Lane, Dumfries

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 06/03/1981 Last Date Amended 14/01/2020 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 96502 75999 Coordinates 296502, 575999 — Built in 1843, the former Maxwelltown Chapel is a largely rectangular-plan church designed in the Early English Gothic style. The chapel is built of coursed red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a square-plan tower at the centre of the symmetrical south elevation. Set back from Laurieknowe, a principal road through Dumfries, the former church forms a group with the former manse and gatepiers. The building is currently in use as a sports centre. The principal (south) elevation is three-bays with ashlar stonework and a central, three-stage tower which has a crenelated parapet and clasp buttresses topped by pinnacles. The tower features an arched central doorway with an ogee hoodmould (missing finial), a hood-moulded lancet window at the second stage and single Y-traceried windows to the upper stage. The tower is flanked by tall hood-moulded lancet windows and three-stage clasp buttresses with pinnacles, now missing their finials. The east and west elevations are four-bays, with tall lancet windows interspaced by pinnacle buttresses. The gabled north elevation has a pinnacle apex and two tall lancet windows flanking a single-storey, rectangular-plan porch with a pitched roof and an octagonal stack at the apex. There is a single-storey, L-plan, addition to the northwest of the church which may be the new vestry recorded as being added in 1939. There are single-storey, later-20th century additions to the northeast corner and east elevation. The 1939 vestry addition to the west and the later 20th century additions to the north and east are all excluded from

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.