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Chapel, Ferniehurst Castle

A Category A Listed Building in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4548 / 55°27'17"N

Longitude: -2.5509 / 2°33'3"W

OS Eastings: 365255

OS Northings: 618022

OS Grid: NT652180

Mapcode National: GBR B5MC.JF

Mapcode Global: WH8YP.S5G3

Plus Code: 9C7VFC3X+WJ

Entry Name: Chapel, Ferniehurst Castle

Listing Name: Ferniehurst Castle Visitor Centre (Former Chapel)

Listing Date: 16 March 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346499

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13370

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Ferniehurst Castle

ID on this website: 200346499

Location: Jedburgh

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: Jedburgh and District

Parish: Jedburgh

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

Tagged with: Castle

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Description

17th century; re-roofed 1935. Oblong single storey and attic 3-bay visitor centre (formerly chapel) with Renaissance detailing. Rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings; buckle quoins to front, quoin strips to rear; steep crowstepped gables.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded door in round-headed surround with long and short quoins and voussoirs and oval rustications; short dressings roll-moulded; imposts with dog-tooth carving; cornice surmounted by framed armorial panel bearing arms of 1st Lord Jedburgh and initials SD above AKAS (Sir Andrew Ker and Dame Anna Stewart).

Cross windows flanking with moulded stone mullions and transoms; moulded architraves with ashlar bands. 3 piend-roofed bipartite slate-hung dormers.

NE ELEVATION: gable-end with modern timber stairs to 1st floor roll-moulded doorway (formerly to laird's gallery); blocked and moulded oculus above.

NW ELEVATION: blank.

SW ELEVATION: gable-end with window in former doorway at ground.

Timber windows; 4-pane sash and case to dormers. Graded grey slates; steeply pitched roof; beak skewputts with ball carved from lower face. INTERIOR: refitted after fire.

Statement of Interest

The chapel may have been used as a falconer's house during the 18th century. A Group with Ferniehurst Castle (see separate listing).

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