Zion Chapel

Zion Chapel, originally a Baptist church, was built between 1879 and 1880 by the architect John Douglas. The building is constructed of stone-dressed red brick and features a red-brown clay tile roof. It includes an undercroft, a church space, and ancillary rooms located in a small wing at the west end of each side, with the main roof sweeping down over these sections.

The exterior presents a symmetrical west front with corner turrets that have eaves lower than those of the church. Each turret features double boarded doors set in moulded pointed-arched stone openings. The basement has three mullioned three-light windows located in a railed area between the turrets. The main gable end consists of three bays divided by moulded stone projections, with two lancet windows in the lower part of each bay and a geometrical two-light window above, the central window being particularly tall. The steep stone-coped gable is complemented by corner turrets that taper to octagonal shapes just below the boldly projecting eaves of the spires. Each side of the chapel has three bays with triple lancets, which are stone-dressed and set in recessed arched brick panels, divided by stone-dressed buttresses. The north and south wings feature cross-windows on their west faces, and there are two louvred and gabled lucarnes on each slope of the main roof.

Inside, the chapel includes a west gallery, and the detailing is simple. Zion Chapel is a significant part of the well-composed group of buildings designed by John Douglas located east of Grosvenor Park Road.