Former Thomas Street Chapel

This is a former Baptist chapel and Anglican church, dating to 1830, which has been converted into apartments. Extensive additions were made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front facade, with a rubble stone right return, and has a slate roof with 20th-century roof-lights. It has a rectangular plan.

The two-storey, three-window front features a coped parapet that sweeps up from the quoins over a central panel inscribed “THOMAS STREET CHAPEL 1830” and “DEO SACRUM DEO PATRI”. It also has a cornice and a double-stepped frieze, with a continuous impost band to three full-height semicircular arched recesses containing 20th-century windows. The right return and rear sides have 20th-century windows.

The interior is not inspected, but is known to have been much altered. Originally built as a Baptist chapel, it later became a chapel-of-ease for St Swithin's and was known as St Thomas' Mission Church. It was repaired in 1884, costing £150, and redecorated in 1892. The building’s construction reflects the early development of Thomas Street, and demonstrates the provision of Nonconformist places of worship on the edges of the growing town, and included a ‘baptisterium,’ or total immersion font, originally beneath the centre of the floor.