Congregational Church

The Congregational Church in Lapford is a Grade II listed building, dating from around 1850. It is constructed from purple mudstone, arranged in uneven courses at the front and tending to rubble at the rear, with granite dressings and a coated slate roof.

This simple Gothick chapel features a rectangular block with a gable end. The entrance is located under a gallery and a porch on the narrow southeast-facing gabled front, with a vestry projecting from the left (southwest) side at the rear. The gable front has three windows, a chamfered plinth, flanking diagonal buttresses, and plain granite coping. The windows are tall lancets with granite sills and pointed arch heads, containing original sashes with glazing bars that follow the Gothick pattern at the top. The central window is smaller and set higher above the front porch, featuring diagonal buttresses, a top drip course, an embattled parapet, and a tall two-centred outer arch. The elliptical-headed doorway has double doors with moulded cover strips in a Gothick pattern. Each side of the church has three lancet sashes with glazing bars similar to those on the front, while the vestry has a smaller version. The rear wall includes a Bathstone oculus with plate tracery, consisting of a central circle surrounded by six smaller circles.

The interior is mostly original, featuring a moulded cornice along the high ceiling. The rear oculus contains leaded coloured glass and has a moulded plaster hood with floral labels and painted text below. The rear gallery showcases blind Gothick arcading, supported on moulded posts with broad spandrels and cut-out trefoils. The box pews, rail, rostrum, and organ are all in a similar style.