Old Baptist Chapel

Old Baptist Chapel is a late 15th-century timber-framed hall house that was adapted for use as a Baptist chapel around 1690 and further modernized in the 18th century; it was substantially restored in approximately 1980. The building is square in plan, with a timber frame featuring tension bracing and plaster infill, covered by a tile roof. Originally a hall house, it was adapted for chapel use and restored to resemble its supposed appearance around 1720. It consists of a single large space with galleries on three sides and a partitioned-off room for the minister.

The exterior features heavily restored framing on a small stone plinth and includes four two-light casements with leading at first-floor level, two at ground-floor level, and two tall, two-plus-one light casements with a central structural post. A six-panel flush-beaded door is positioned on the far left, and a similar door in a moulded surround is on the right end. The gable, partially obscured by adjacent brick cottages, is timber-framed.

The interior is a large open space with galleries on three sides, a plastered segmental barrel ceiling, and five exposed tie-rods. Framing is exposed on the walls. Galleries, accessed by 20th-century staircases, are supported by slender, turned Doric columns with high plinths, carrying a heavy beam with brackets at the street end and a stopped-chamfer beam at the west end (burial ground). Panelled gallery fronts are present. A former minister's room, with a fireplace, is enclosed by a partition on the first floor at the west end. Features include a good-quality stained and grained pulpit with a dentilled cornice and a backboard, along with a few early benches.

The building was later sub-divided into two cottages after a new Baptist Chapel opened in 1805. A rear balcony may have been added in 1905. Tewkesbury Borough Council acquired the building in 1976 and restored it to its current condition at a cost of approximately £116,000, including a grant of approximately £44,000 from the local authority. The structure is now of primarily historical interest.