Beechen Grove Baptist Chapel

Beechen Grove Baptist Chapel was built in 1877 by J W Chapman and is designed in the late Romanesque style. The chapel features a three-bay nave, aisles, and a choir with an apsidal baptistry. It has an apsidal west end with an ambulatory and transepts, along with a north-west porch that includes a staircase block. The building is topped with tall tile roofs and constructed from grey stock brick, accented with red brick and Bath stone dressings. Decorative bands and strings adorn the gables and tower, while the western apse is enhanced with shallow arcading and slender pilasters. The tower is capped with a pyramidical roof, and the structure includes round-arched windows and prostyle porticoes. Inside, there is a gallery at the west end, arcades with moulded caps supporting enriched semi-circular arches, and plate tracery clerestory windows set in rectangular recesses. The flat ceiling features a covered cornice decorated with stencil foliage designs. A triple arch leads to the chancel, flanked by a pulpit and a precentor's desk. There are later school buildings added to the rear.