City Road Baptist Chapel And Attached Steps And Railings

City Road Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel dating from 1861, designed by James Medland and AW Maberley. It is constructed of snecked rubble with limestone dressings and a tile roof. The building has an aisled, single-cell plan and is executed in an Italianate style.

The west front features a tall central gable with a Lombard frieze, a parapet with rope moulding, and a central square pinnacle. Flanking buttresses form small turrets with octagonal pinnacles. A three-order semicircular-arched doorway is ornamented with foliate capitals to shafts, foliate decoration to the inner arches, rope and flowers to the outer, and a shoulder-arch with the inscription "CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL 1862" in the tympanum. Above the door is a band with the inscription "STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE", surmounted by a wheel window with 12 trefoil-headed lights and polychrome voussoirs. The west ends of the aisles mirror the central features with buttresses, parapets, and windows with two semicircular-arched lights set within a semicircular arch.

The five-bay north aisle has shallow buttresses and a Lombard frieze, with windows similar to the west end, incorporating foliate roundels in the tympana. Inserted round windows of 1905 break the frieze, and smaller arched windows form a clerestory below a corbel table. The south aisle features a crypt with plain semicircular-arched windows separated by splayed buttresses, a door to the west, and two small set-backs above.

The two-storey, three-window range Jubilee Chapel, dated 1885, is attached to the east end and has round-headed windows and a shallow porch with a semicircular-arch doorway featuring zigzag moulding and a round window above.

Internally, the chapel has four-bay aisles with moulded arches resting on richly-carved capitals. Bracketed galleries extend along the sides and to the west end, with an openwork front and Lombard frieze. Round-headed doorways with dogtooth architraves are located at the east and west ends, and the roof is supported by arch-braced king-post trusses. The chapel contains mid-19th century benches and a decoratively carved pulpit.

Subsidiary features include Pennant stone steps leading up to the west front from the south, and fleur-de-lys railings enclosing the front area and the north sides.