Baptist Chapel

The Baptist Chapel, located on Bridge Road in Lower Swanwick, was built in 1844, with a vestry added to the rear around 1870 and minor alterations in the late 20th century. The main range is a single-story brick building with a gabled slate roof, overhanging eaves, and a lower, rendered gabled vestry at the rear.

The front elevation is built in Flemish bond brickwork, with grey brick headers and a rendered plinth. The gable features a central datestone flanked by round-headed, blank openings. A central doorcase contains double doors with three fielded panels each, covered by a flat slate hood supported by simple scrolled wooden brackets. The northern side elevation uses a Flemish garden wall bond and contains three brick pilasters and two 15-pane sash windows in rebated frames with stone cills, and a small 20th-century top-opening casement window added to light a later internal lobby. The southern side elevation is similar, with five pilasters. The rear vestry, dating from around 1870, has a sash window with horns and a planked vestry door.

Inside, the chapel has a simple plastered vaulted ceiling and plastered walls with plain wainscot panelling. It features a simple wood-panelled pulpit on a plinth, with steps to the left, plain balusters, a handrail, and a column newel. There are fourteen 19th-century wooden pews with curved ends, likely original to the building. A marble plaque behind the pulpit commemorates George Harding, who preached for "nearly 60 years" and built the chapel in 1844 with assistance from John Moody, owner of a local boatyard on the River Hamble. Additional internal features include a row of hat or coat hooks mounted on boards with simple moulding, attached to the side walls at head height.

The chapel is substantially intact, retaining many original fittings and has group value due to its associations with a local boatyard.