Presbyterian Chapel, Including Forecourt Walls and Railings

This is a small former Presbyterian chapel, dating from the 18th century, built of local rubble with a shallow slate roof and deep eaves. It is situated within an extra-parochial area. The chapel’s design incorporates a short nave and a square-headed choir, with a prominent three-stage tower centrally positioned at its front. The tower features a Celtic-style stone pyramidal roof and an arched entrance to the ground floor, leading to a boarded door with modern ironwork. The second stage of the tower has a rectangular window with a modern clock face added in 1996, and a plain string course defines the upper stage, which has a large arched window with horizontal slatting. The nave's west end has arched windows with four-pane glazing and matching fans, with semi-circular lights above. The side walls are divided into three bays and feature arched windows of a similar design. Blocked Tudor-arched entrances are present on both sides of the chapel, at both the east and west ends. The east end has a large canted bay window with a hipped roof and an arched, three-light Y-tracery window, with leaded lights and plain glass elsewhere.

A long, rectangular forecourt extends before the chapel. It is enclosed by tall, coped rubble side walls, terminating at the front in octagonal piers of squared, coursed stone with shallow conical capping. A low, coped wall of similar stone is topped with spear-headed railings and simple central gates at the front.

The interior is plain, featuring a depressed, segmentally-vaulted plaster ceiling and a parquet floor. There is also boarded dado panelling of pine, with a replacement on the south side. A western inner porch of pine contains blind trefoil and quatrefoil decoration, a three-light central window with obscured glass, and six-panel doors to the returns, the upper four being glazed. To the left and right of this porch are further entrances, the door to the left incorporating Gothic detailing such as segmental heads, arched panels, and quatrefoils; a similar, square-headed door is located to the right. Open Gothic oak railings define a raised Deacon's Enclosure at the east end, with trefoil-headed arcading and square flanking newels. A simple Gothic-style oak Deacon's chair and reading desk are positioned on the left side. The tower, which serves as an entrance porch, has pine dado panelling and a black/red tiled pavement.