Baptist Chapel With Attached Parish Room And Manse

The building comprises a Baptist chapel with an attached parish room and manse, founded in 1658, with the present chapel dating to 1843 and alterations made in 1888. A further extension towards the road now serves as the parish room, and the manse was constructed in 1888. The building is brick-built with Welsh-slate and plain tile roofs.

The chapel itself is a one-story, four-bay structure. The parish room is a two-story addition at the front, and to the right is the three-story manse, with a gable end facing the road. A two-story, two-window wing projects from the right side of the manse, set back and connected by a single-story porch in the angle.

The original chapel is red brick in Flemish bond, with a Welsh-slate roof and stepped dentilled eaves. It features tall, four-centred-arched recesses containing tall similarly-arched windows with stone cills and 7/4-pane sashes, complete with arched glazing bars in the heads.

The parish room is constructed of red brick and ashlar, with a plain tile roof, stepped raised verge, and a stepped gable with moulded ashlar coping and a finial. It has an upper window of five stepped lights with transoms and a stepped hoodmould, and a panelled band below. The ground floor incorporates a three-light window and an entrance with a double door and mullioned over-light.

The manse is of red brick in Flemish bond, with white-brick "quoins”, decorative bands, eaves, and jambs. It has decorative stone cills and lintels, an oversailing Welsh-slate roof with dentilled and moulded eaves, barge boards, and brick stacks with offsets. The windows are 2/2 sashes, paired on the ground floor, with a three-light canted bay-window to the gable end of the wing.

The chapel interior features a three-sided gallery supported by cast-iron columns and brackets with blind Gothick-arched panelled fronts. There are three tiers of pews on the sides and one at the back; a Gothick-panelled door to the NW gallery; a SW staircase with narrow balusters, curved treads, and a handrail with a spiral curtail; a pointed-arched double-door on the ground floor at the east end; a main four-centred-arched entrance at the west end; and further pointed-arched doorways. The flat ceiling is divided into squares by deep ribs springing from bosses on the side walls, with four moulded ceiling roses featuring metal grilles. A refurbishment in the 1980s resulted in the removal of most original fittings. Remaining furnishings include a candle lamp from 1843, early-19th century wall monuments, and an under-floor baptistry.