Sussex Street Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Church.

Sussex Street Baptist Church

WRENN ID
weathered-storey-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 September 1991
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Tall, Classical 3-bay front with full-height Corinthian columned portico. Redbrick with painted freestone dressings including vermiculated quoins, plinth, deep cornice (altered following erosion of mouldings) and parapet with central pediment; panelled band formerly ran the full width. Italiantate, tall, 2-light windows with central transom at gallery level; bracketed sills and sill band. Round-arched entrance with double doors, panelled reveals and tall keystone linked to circular window above; this and flanking windows all have deep hood moulds with paired impost brackets and keystones. Facade is returned 1-baybay around corner. Main body of chapel is slate roofed and has small-pane sash windows. Rusticated architraves to cement rendered left-hand side and simple polychrome decoration to redbrick right-hand side including impost and sill banding, alternating blue and redbrick voussoirs and yellow brick bracket cornice. Attached panelled gate piers. Altered transverse hall to left at rear.

Gallery along front wall and tall panel to rear wall behind former position of set fawr; includes roundel, egg and dart ornament and enormous keystone. Steeply raked seating. The set fawr itself, the pulpit, and the front pews have been removed. Impost band and architraves to windows, the former swept up beside gallery. Baptistery beneath floor; Gothic organ case. Trusses boarded in at collar level. Lobby has depressed arch opposite main entrance and single staircase to gallery. Hall above schoolroom at rear.

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