The Zion Baptist Church

The Zion Baptist Church is a church built between 1877 and 1879. It is constructed of gault brick, with red brick and stone dressings, and features Welsh slate roofs, some of which are hipped and others with stone-coped gables. The church is designed in the Venetian Byzantine style and has a large central space, with lower entrance and staircase towers on either side and vestries at the rear. The front of the building is expressed as two storeys and features a six-window range that includes 1-, 2-, and 3-light windows, all with brick round and basket arches and stone hoodmoulds. The larger windows are adorned with stone tracery, while a small rose window is situated above and a lancet window is found in the gable apex. The ground floor windows are grouped as either 1- or 3-lights. The entrances on either side have double-leaved doors set within deeply moulded round arches. A cill band on the first floor is inscribed with 'Zion Baptist Chapel 1878'. The building showcases fine use of red brick and stone bands, moulded brick eaves, and carved stone ornaments. The sides of the church are similar, featuring 2-light windows between buttresses. The church adjoins and forms a group with the Zion Chapel Sunday School to the right.

Inside, the church remains largely unaltered, except for the creation of a vestibule under the rear gallery. Notable fittings include a gallery that wraps around three sides with a pierced balustrade, pews with end gates, a pulpit, seats for the minister and deacons, gallery pews, balustrades for the gallery stairs, and two large gas chandeliers.