Mitcham Lane Baptist Church

Mitcham Lane Baptist Church, built in 1902 by George Baines and R P Baines, is a Grade II listed building designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and pale gault banding, topped with slate roofs and crocket tiles. The church has a return elevation to Welham Road.

On the Mitcham Lane side, the gabled 'west' front of the nave is framed by towered piers with angle buttresses. To the left, there is a recessed tower with angle buttresses, and to the right, a two-storey bay with a hipped roof, railing, and needle finial. The central gabled porch between the buttresses features a splayed pointed-arch entrance with a stepped stilted head within a label. The double doors are adorned with elaborate iron hinges, and the stilted head above is filled with blind panel tracery. The tower and right-hand bay each have segmental-headed entrances with similar detailing to the main entrance. Above the side entrances are flat-headed panel tracery windows with three ogee lights, which flank the large 'west' window of the nave, characterized by a stepped segmental head and filled with panel tracery. The nave gable is topped with a decorative plume finial.

From the south, the tower stands as a prominent feature of the two street elevations. Its middle stage has loopholes on each face, while the belfry stage includes louvred openings with segmental heads and three ogee lancets. A moulded string runs around the buttresses, which rise into pedimented pinnacles topped with plume finials. These pinnacles are connected by screens of open panel tracery. The Welham Road elevation showcases a tripartite arrangement of gabled transept between wings, featuring panel tracery with windows of ogee lights on both the ground and first floors, with the first-floor windows having segmental heads.