Baptist Church And Adjoining Sunday School

This is a Baptist church and adjoining Sunday school, built in 1858-59 with an extension in 1900, and subsequently altered in the mid and late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick and coursed squared stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, and is designed in a Neo-Norman style.

The west-facing gable features a machicolated band and eaves. A central wheel window is surrounded by voussoirs. Below, a round-arched triple arcade is supported by Corinthian columns, with mid-20th century canopies in the openings. Flanking the arcade are square towers, three stages high, topped with a slated octagonal spire and finial. The lower stage of the towers has a single light window with a keystone, the second stage a round-arched double lancet with keystones, and the broached octagonal bell stage round-arched openings with keystones.

The side elevations, divided into panels by pilaster strips, have a first-floor band and machicolated eaves. The first floor has six pairs of round-arched windows. Ground floor windows consist of a similar pair at the front, followed by five larger segment-headed windows. The right return includes a basement of coursed squared stone with a single-storey gabled projection to the left, and four segment-headed 12-pane sash windows to its right. The rear has a gabled two-storey schoolroom with five composite casements.

The interior is a single space with a deep moulded cornice and a plaster panelled ceiling with a central boss. A gallery is present on four sides, with rounded corners to the front, supported by round cast-iron columns on each floor. At the front is a plain opening with scroll brackets, containing an organ and choir gallery. Below is a 1920 traceried, round-cornered wooden pulpit with stairs featuring wrought-iron balustrades, and a plain dais. Doors flank the pulpit leading to a refitted entrance hall.

Original fittings include traceried panelled benches. Memorials include a brass war memorial panel in a wooden frame dating to 1920, and a marble and slate tablet from 1895.