Baptist Church And Former Stables At Rear

The Baptist Church, built in 1895, features a detached stable range at the rear. Constructed from red brick in English bond with limestone dressings, it has coped verges and a slate roof. The church has a continuous gallery and an entrance on the south front, with a meeting room located on the north front. The south side is gable fronted, featuring a circular window in the gable end and three 2-light pointed arch windows linked by a continuous hoodmould. Stepped buttresses are present on the outer bays, flanking a single-storey projecting gabled porch that also has lancets in the outer bays. The porch includes a semi-circular headed opening with a central column supporting two arched head openings, leading to recessed doors approached by a flight of three steps. Four square panels at the plinth level record the date of the building and those present at its opening. The three bay returns have full height pilaster buttresses that support an entablature with a 'bird's mouth' brick cornice, and arch head 2-light windows with marginal glazing bars. The entrance to the meeting room projects from the north-east corner, where a fifth plaque commemorates the church's opening. The single-storey meeting room is located at the rear.

Inside, the church features a canted continuous gallery with cast iron enriched railings supported by cast iron columns, a diagonally boarded ceiling, and stained pine dado and pews, some equipped with baskets and clips for wet umbrellas. There is an internal porch with stairs leading out, a reading desk with flanking stairs, and an organ with decorated pipes situated in the gallery above. The stables are a red brick, single-storey, three-bay shelter shed with a double Roman tiled roof and an adjoining tack room on the right, featuring a square headed plank door and window opening. These stables were used for the horses of parishioners attending services.