Former Congregational Church And Attached Sunday School, Now Messenger, May Baverstock Premises

The building comprises a former Congregational Church and attached Sunday School and Mission Room, now occupied as a furniture store and saleroom. The church dates to 1868, while the Sunday School and Mission Room were added in 1883 by architects Messrs Welman and Street. Later 20th-century alterations have also been made.

The church is constructed of bargate stone with ashlar dressings and features banded fishscale slate roofs. It is designed in a Gothic style and includes a prominent gable to Bridge Street, flanked by matching gabled porches with pointed-arched board doors set within chamfered surrounds, hood moulds, and crested ridge tiles. A large four-light window with a hood mould is centrally placed within the gable, flanked by tall buttresses and quatrefoils, with a quatrefoil oculus and date plaque above. The gable terminates with ashlar coping, gablets, an iron finial on a gableted base, and crested ridge tiles. A two-stage tower is located to the right, boasting tall angle buttresses with gablets, lancets to the lower stage, and a quatrefoil band below an offset upper stage featuring tall lancets with tracery. An offset broached top, formerly the base of a spire, has been removed. The left return facade, along The Burys, displays five bays with trefoil-headed windows and a dentilled eaves band. The right return has a gabled projection with an oculus.

The Sunday School and Mission Room were added to the northwest, facing onto The Burys and linked by a two-storey, three-bay block. The main block features a recessed centre, a pointed-arched doorway to the left, single-light triangular-headed windows on the ground floor, and four transomed, flat-headed windows with two arched lights above, all set beneath a dentilled string below the parapet. To the left of the main block stands a tall two-storey Mission Room, with a polygonal rear section, presenting two bays to The Burys. The ground floor features a pent-roofed portico with a taller central doorway, a hood mould, and a gable with a blind, cusped oculus above, and flanking lower doorways. The first-floor bays are framed by ashlar pilasters and a dentilled eaves band, with paired lancets. A knob finial tops the roof. A two-storey bay, in line with the portico, contains three stepped lancets for stair lighting, an eaves band, kneelers, and coping. Its left return incorporates two two-light windows on each floor and a cusped oculus to the gable.

The polygonal rear section of the Mission Room is characterized by full-height buttresses defining the bays, each with a three-light window on each floor; the ground floor windows have stepped lancet lights, and the upper floors feature cusped lights. A cyma-moulded eaves band runs along the top.

The church interior features a balustraded gallery, arch-braced roof trusses, and a panelled ceiling with diagonal braces. The Mission Room has a gallery with a decorative balustrade.