Keach'S Meeting House And Graveyard Walls

Keach's Meeting House is a Baptist chapel built in the 17th century, said to date from 1625, but likely constructed around the same time as the porch, which is dated 1695. The chapel underwent alterations and refitting in the early 19th century. It is made of brick with an irregular bond. The left gable features a brick plinth and a band course at the eaves level. The building has an old tiled roof and consists of two bays.

The north front has small leaded windows with moulded jambs and wooden shutters. A central gabled porch is timber framed with brick infill and includes original twisted wooden balusters on the open side sections. The wooden entablature at the front of the porch has been much restored. The east gable has a 20th-century two-light window in a blocked doorway, with a single barred window above it. The south front features 20th-century leaded casements with segmental heads. Two single lights were inserted high in the west wall in 1824.

Inside, the chapel has a humble interior with arched braces supporting the central principal rafters and wind braces in the roof. Notable fittings include a 17th-century communion table with turned baluster legs, early 19th-century box pews and a central pulpit at the west end, plain benches with single back rails likely from the same period, and a narrow gallery along the east wall from 1827, which has an open front and a narrow staircase to the north. Wooden hat pegs are also present, along with early 18th-century tomb slabs in the floor.

The small graveyard in front of the chapel is enclosed by a brick wall featuring a segmental arch gateway on the east side. The chapel is associated with Benjamin Keach, who was one of the first to introduce regular hymn singing in services and served as pastor in Winslow from 1658 to 1668.