Former Angle Street Baptist Church And Attached Forecourt Railings, Piers And Gates

The former Angle Street Baptist Church, now an Islamic school, was built in 1877 and features attached forecourt railings, gate piers, and gates. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and is designed in a debased Romanesque style. It has a rectangular plan situated on a triangular site, set back to face the angle.

The exterior consists of two storeys with a gabled three-bay facade, displaying a symmetrical arrangement of windows (1:3:1). The facade includes a chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins at the corners and sides of the outer bays on the first floor, and a broad band between the floors that is mostly plain but features raised lettering indicating the year "1877" towards the right. The open pedimental gable above the outer bays has a plain frieze and moulded coping.

At ground floor, there are two round-headed doorways with squat colonnettes topped with crocket caps, semicircular overlights, horseshoe hood-moulds with foliated stops, and panelled double doors. The first floor has a large round-headed window with two round-headed lights and rose tracery, flanked by narrow round-headed windows with linked hood-moulds. Each outer bay features a stair window with three staggered round-headed lights at ground floor and a narrow round-headed window above, which has circular tracery. The side walls, which have six windows, include square-headed windows at ground floor and round-headed windows above, along with stone gutter brackets.

The interior has been remodelled, with the former gallery removed, an upper floor inserted, and the ground floor partitioned. The triangular forecourt is enclosed by spear-headed bar railings mounted on a low stone wall with chamfered coping. On the east side, there are two pairs of gate piers with pyramidal tops and ramped iron gates. The building forms a group with the associated former school, now the Jamia Mosque, on North Street, and is a notable feature at the junction of two side streets that are otherwise lined with standardised terraced housing.