Herne Hill Baptist Church

Herne Hill Baptist Church comprises a church, church hall, and offices, built in 1889 and 1904-1906 to designs by the local architect J. William Stevens. A church hall was constructed to the rear in 1889, facing Winterbrook Road, with classrooms added in 1905.

The church is built of red brick in Flemish bond with stone and terracotta dressings, topped with a parapeted gable roof. It features round-arched, two-light windows flanking a round-arched entrance porch, a wheel window to the gable, and a cupola at the ridge’s centre. The architectural style is described as Nonconformist Art Nouveau-cum-Gothic Revival.

The church’s plan includes a five-bay nave with a south aisle containing offices, further offices to the east, and a three-stage octagonal tower to the south-west. The entrance range is single bay, with a gable facing, flanked by two-storey crenellated gallery stair towers with square plans.

The ritual west elevation has a shallow entrance bay with a pair of flat-arched entrances recessed within round-arched, gabled recesses. Crenellated parapets angle back to segmental-arched entrances on either side. The openings feature alternating brick and stone voussoirs. A three-light round-arched window with quatrefoil tracery sits above, with single round-arched lights to either side. Sill and springing bands extend across the tower. The tower is accessed via a gabled aedicule, with varied fenestration and decorative brickwork and terracotta above. The cupola is topped with a metal-covered ogee roof. Offices have a flat-arched entrance in the south aisle, with a traceried overlight within a gabled aedicule, alongside a second rear entrance. The south aisle windows are mullioned and transomed, and feature strip buttresses with gabled capstones. The clerestory has three-light windows in each bay, with round-arched jambs, and a simple block corbel table. Octagonal clasping buttresses terminate in decorative "pepper pots" above the corbel table. Wall spurs with roundel piercings connect the aisle and clerestory buttresses, creating a type of flying buttress.

The nave has been floored over to create two meeting halls, but the braced and hammerbeam roof remains intact and exposed, incorporating timber panelling. The glass features abstract geometric and floral patterns.