The Zion Baptist Church

CAMBRIDGE EAST ROAD TL 4558 SE 667- /8/10036 The Zion Baptist Church GV II Church. 1877-9. Gault brick with red brick and stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs, some hipped, some with stone-coped gables. Venetian Byzantine style, with large central space, lower entrance/staircase towers either side and vestries to rear. Front expressed as 2 storeys. 6-window range overall of 1-, 2-, and 3-light windows with brick round and basket arches and stone hoodmoulds. Larger windows have stone tracery. Small rose window above and lancet in gable apex. Similar windows on ground floor grouped as 1- or 3-lights. Entrances to either side have double leaved doors and deeply moulded round arches. First floor cill band inscribed 'Zion Baptist Chapel 1878'. Fine use of red brick and stone bands, moulded brick eaves and carved stone ornaments. Sides similar with 2-light windows between buttresses. Adjoins and forms group with the Zion Chapel Sunday School (qv) to right. INTERIOR. Unaltered except for formation of vestibule under rear gallery. Fittings include gallery round three sides with pierced balustrade, pews with end gates, pulpit, seats for minister and deacons, gallery pews, balustrades to gallery stairs, and 2 large gas chandeliers.

Listing NGR: TL4583058290