Number 79 And Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

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SD8332SE HAMMERTON STREET 906-1/19/68 (West side) 29/09/77 No.79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

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Methodist chapel, now Baptist church and Sunday School. c1835. For the Protestant Wesleyan Methodist Society, altered c1868-71 by the Baptist Society; and Sunday School added in later C19. Coursed squared dressed sandstone with freestone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street; with Sunday School attached to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays, a symmetrical facade with narrower pedimented outer bays slightly projected and the whole in open-pedimental gabled form. The centre has full-width steps, and coupled entrances and windows in a 2-storeyed round-headed architrave which has superimposed pilasters, a moulded cornice over the ground floor and a moulded head with a panelled keystone: the doorways have moulded surrounds, recessed panelled doors and overlights with coloured margin panes, and the windows above are sashed, with similar margin panes. The outer bays have tall 8-pane round-headed windows with coloured panes and margins, and panelled keystones. No.79 adjoining to the left, breaking forwards and slightly overlapping the left bay, has a 3-storey single-window gabled facade with a doorway to the right in a plain surround and windows with raised sills, plain surrounds and altered glazing. The side walls of the church have tall round-headed windows (5 on the north side). At the rear, the school, built at right-angles, has a 2-storey 3-window gabled facade with (inter alia) a large cross-window in the centre of the upper floor. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8387132354