Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings And Enclosing Forecourt

The Ebenezer Chapel, along with its gatepiers, railings, and enclosing forecourt, dates from 1878. The chapel is built of squared and irregularly coursed local stone, with buff brick dressings, quoins, a plinth, and a slate roof with overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards. The plan comprises a single cell with a store room in the basement, on the north front. The land slopes steeply northwards. The south front features long, pointed arch windows with translucent glass, flanking a pointed arch double door with decorative hinges. A datestone with a semi-circular head, brick voussoirs, and jambs is inscribed "Ebenezer 1878". Two-bay returns have similar pointed arch windows above a chamfered plinth. A circular window is set in the gable end of the north front, below the plinth, and a plank door leads to the basement store, which has a two-light wooden mullioned window to the right. The interior was inaccessible during the survey in June 1985.

A narrow, rectangular forecourt fronts the chapel. It is defined by square brick piers in the corners, which bear undressed lumps of granite. The forecourt has a dwarf wall of squared and irregularly coursed local stone, with saddleback brick coping, and cast iron trefoil-headed railings to the front wall. The returns and rear have wrought iron or cut-out iron railings.

Historically, in the mid-19th century, the settlement of Ragland Castle became more important than Upton due to its position on the toll road, and the name was transferred when the Church of St James was rebuilt.