Eggleston Baptist Church

The Baptist Chapel, dated 1872 above the door, was built in the 19th century. It is constructed of rock-faced coursed squared sandstone, with thinner courses towards the top, and has ashlar dressings. The roof is of Welsh slate, with rendered and stone chimneys. The building is single-storied and has five bays, with the left bay lower than the others.

A flight of steps leads to a central double door constructed of six panels, with a stone-bracketed gabled hood supported on painted pilasters. Steps also lead to six-panel doors with three-pane overlights at each end bay. An inscribed lintel above the left door and the inscription “BRITISH WORKMAN” above the right door are present. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills feature on the twelve-pane sashes that flank the central door. The roof has three corniced chimneys with steeply-sloped rendered tops at each end of the main and left roof slopes. The “BRITISH WORKMAN” inscription refers to a reading room provided for the workers of Eggleston Street Mill, and there is a connection with the journal British Workman, published between 1855 and 1921, which promoted self-help and education.