Melbourne Baptist Church

This is a Baptist church, built in 1750 and enlarged in 1832, with minor alterations since. The church is constructed of rendered brick, designed to resemble ashlar, with painted stone dressings and rusticated rendered quoins. It has a slate roof with stone coped gables on plain kneelers. The building is three bays wide by three bays long, with a lower bay to the west.

The main east-facing elevation is gabled and features a plain sill band and an eaves band. On the ground floor is a central 18th-century Venetian window, now blocked, with fixed 20th-century windows filled with coloured glass in the side lights, each with a keystone. A decorative 19th-century lamp bracket sits above the central window. To either side are 18th-century doorcases with raised fillets and keystones, each containing a panelled door. Above the doors are three fixed-pane windows, each set beneath rusticated wedge lintels with keystones. In the gable is a stone plaque, inscribed "General Baptist Chapel, Erected 1750, enlarged 1832," with a small moulded circular window positioned just above it. The south elevation has two fixed-pane windows on the ground floor and three similar windows above, again with rusticated wedge lintels and keystones. The rear elevation features a lower brick chancel bay with a segment-headed doorcase to the north and a semi-circular headed window above; a similar window is located in the west wall.

Inside, a panelled gallery is supported by wooden columns, extending to three sides. A wide moulded depressed segmental arch opens into the western bay, flanked by banded pilasters rising from the gallery level. The ceiling is panelled, with a decorative early 19th-century rose at its centre. The nave contains simple early 19th-century box pews. The western bay includes an ornate late 19th-century railing around the front and pulpit, with an ornate organ located behind. Numerous wall memorials are present, including three from the 18th century on the east wall: one marble and slate memorial to Robert Shevyn (died 1791), and two slate memorials with urn finials, one to Francis Smith (died 1796) and one to Robert Sheffield (died 1797). A north wall memorial in slate and white marble commemorates John Pegg (died 1826), by J Robinson of Derby, and another to John Earp (died 1836), by J Yates of Leicester. A third, unsigned memorial remembers Thomas Perkins and his daughter Elizabeth, who died in 1792 and 1854 respectively. On the south wall is a coloured marble war memorial, together with slate and white marble memorials to John Scott (died 1846), by Bagnall, and John Earp (died 1883), signed by Robinson of Derby.