Kensington Baptist Chapel

Kensington Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1885 by architect T.L. Watson. It features a combination of limestone ashlar, Pennant ashlar, and rubble, with a roof that is not visible. The chapel is designed in a Neoclassical style and has two storeys with a five-window range. The symmetrical front has a central section that is slightly advanced and topped with a pediment, flanked by wings that are slightly recessed. The building includes a Pennant plinth, a ground-floor cornice, a first-floor string course, an entablature, and a coped parapet, with the cornice raised beneath a raised parapet at the center.

Access to the chapel is via steps leading up to a tripartite doorway, which features a pedimented center set forward, an eared architrave, and architraves on the flanking doors, leading to two-leaf doors with ten panels. The first floor has a distyle-in-antis Corinthian loggia between paired pilasters, which have incised anthemia capitals, and an entablature inscribed with "BAPTIST CHAPEL." Three windows behind the columns have pilaster jambs and moulded lintels, while the narrower windows in the wings have architraves, with the first-floor windows being taller and topped with small pediments. The windows are casements with horizontal glazing bars. The sides of the chapel are finished with short ashlar returns and Pennant rubble. The interior has not been inspected. This building represents a late but skilled application of Classicism for a nonconformist chapel in Bristol, designed by a Glasgow architect.