New Meeting House

The New Meeting House, built around 1883 by Payne and Talbot, is a Gothic chapel for the Unitarian Church. It is constructed from rockfaced red stone with white stone dressings. The building features a gabled front with a coped stone plaque and an enriched cornice. There are two windows with three cusped lights, each surrounded by crocketed finials, and two outer windows with a single light and cusped heads, all beneath dripmoulds with finials and terminals. A carved band runs between the storeys. The ground floor includes two small doorways and one large doorway, all topped with crocketed finials, with the outer windows matching those above. The chapel sits on a stone plinth and is accessed by four steps. End stone pilasters rise to gabled heights at the half-storey and first floor, topped with plain pyramidal caps. Notably, the chapel houses Richard Baxter's pulpit from 1621.