Baptist Chapel And Charles Baker Monument In Burial Ground

The Baptist Chapel and Charles Baker monument, located in the burial ground, was built in 1830. The chapel features mainly pebbledashed cob with unrendered random rubble limestone at the north end and has a gable end slate roof with crested ridge tiles. It is a simple rectangular structure with a gallery at the south entrance and a small two-storey manse situated behind the rostrum, sharing the same roof and heated by a small brick stack. The chapel is oriented north to south.

On the west elevation, there are three pointed two-light windows, with the middle window being taller and featuring Y tracery. The frames are pegged, and the windows contain intersecting leading and some panes of contemporary brightly coloured glass. The gallery is lit by a two-light window at the eaves level. The manse has a two-light square-headed casement window on each floor, both retaining their original wooden tracery.

The entrance front on the south side has a pointed central doorway with a planked door, flanked by triangular-headed lancets and another set above. The east elevation includes an external stair turret on the far left for gallery access, two smaller pointed two-light windows set higher than those on the west. The north end has a rounded corner and no windows.

Inside, the gallery has been boarded to create a meeting room, but the original frontal remains visible. It features an upper rail with diamond patterning and four simple depressed panels on either side of two central panels adorned with cable moulding and apertures for organ pipes. The furnishings, including benches, date from around 1870. The ceiling is planked and canted, and there are rooms at the back of the rostrum with planked doors and strap hinges, as well as a panelled door leading to the gallery.

The burial ground contains several 19th-century monuments, including a slate headstone in a brick pillar commemorating Charles Baker, who died in 1836 and was the founder of the Baptist cause at Sainthill.