Edern Presbyterian Chapel

This is a late 19th-century Presbyterian chapel, built in 1898. It is constructed of unpainted stucco with slate roofs and red tile ridges. The chapel is broad with a prominent facade featuring a pedimented centrepiece and flanking wings, the wings being hipped at right angles to the main roof. The pediment contains a keyed roundel and the words 'Edeyrn M.C. 1898' are inscribed in raised letters within the frieze, interrupted by a prominent keystone rising from the apex of a major segmental arch that frames the facade openings. The arch is inset in channelled rustication. Within the arch, the first floor features a triple-arched window with moulded pilasters, arches, and keystones, the central window being wider than the side-lights. A sill course runs across the facade. The ground floor incorporates similar mouldings to the arched doorway and small windows on each side. Wings project forward from the chapel sides and feature paired windows on each floor, recessed with channelled piers at the outer angles. The upper pair of windows are arched with matching mouldings, while the lower pair are flat-headed with a cornice above. End walls of the wings have a similar recess set back with channelled angle pilasters and incorporate an arched window above a flat-headed window. All windows are small-paned with marginal glazing bars, and most are sash windows, with the exception of the arched windows on the facade.

A colourwashed stucco vestry and schoolroom is attached to the rear, featuring a gable to the street with arched windows flanking a porch.

The interior is elaborately decorated and has a capacity for over 800 people. The painted plaster walls are lined to resemble ashlar. The ornate ceiling is divided into panels by moulded ribs, with three large circles down the centre featuring fine 18th-century style detail, and a border of rectangles with inset decorated plaques. Pine pews are arranged in three main blocks, with some facing inward on each side of the pulpit. The pulpit and associated seating area are ornate, the great seat featuring a low balustrade to the back and curved angles. The pulpit has a canted front, moulded and carved arched panels, arcaded balustrading to each side, and curving balustraded steps. Behind the pulpit is an elaborate neo-Renaissance aedicule, incorporating paired pilasters, a blind arch with shell fluting, and a pediment. Scroll volutes are positioned on either side. A gallery is supported by four rows of iron posts with ornate capitals. The timber-panelled gallery front is curved at the angles, with console brackets to the lower cornice and fine painted graining to the panelling, designed to suggest different woods. There are long panels between square projected sections with inset patterned panels; the side panels also have decorated central lozenge panels. The gallery features steeply raked seating. A vestry and two meeting rooms are located at the rear; the vestry features a three-sided ceiling, an enclosed porch with a cornice and clock above, and walls painted to imitate ashlar.