Presbyterian Chapel

This is a Presbyterian chapel, built in the 19th century. The exterior is constructed of rubble stone with freestone dressings, and has slate roofs with cresting. The main facade features a gable-ended nave with stone parapets and a Tudor octagonal turret topped with a cap and ball finial. It has a five-light Perpendicular window with a louvred vent above, and a heavily moulded pointed entrance arch with broad, chamfered jambs and double boarded doors with strapwork hinges. A band of blind and glazed cusped lights, bounded by stringcourses, runs across the entrance arch and is repeated on two faces of the flanking bell tower. The tower has a pyramidal slate roof with a battlemented parapet and octagonal turret with a finial. Angle buttresses, battered and with gabled copings, are present on the other two corners. Each face of the bell stage has two louvred lights, with a band of blind and glazed cusped lights below.

A projecting splayed bay with a battlemented parapet and slate roof with cresting is located on the right side. A narrow lane separates the cement-rendered right side of the church from the Albert Hall. The left side is more open, with a transverse gable and stone gable parapets, displaying a two-light plate tracery window. Other windows are two-light with square heads up to gallery level, and canted at ground level.

The chapel is accessed via two rubble gate piers with freestone dressings and ironwork gates, connected by a low rubble and brick wall with iron railings above, featuring finials and white painted ornamentation. Gate piers are located at the ends, with an iron gate leading to a right-side lane.

The interior is galleried and predominantly features Gothic detailing. The four-bay rectangular nave has a plastered vault with 4-centred arches; longitudinal ribs link ventilators with foliage surrounds and transverse ribs rise from rich foliage corbels to an ornate cornice. Four-centred arches lead to the gallery, with stiff-leaf capitals to cast-iron columns. Bowed cast-iron gallery fronts have anthemion panels, and timberwork trusses support the raked galleries. A similar gallery is present in the apsidal choir, with intruded corner bays. The gallery sweeps down to connect with a platform and a polygonal pulpit featuring good Art Nouveau detailing, ironwork handrails, and original pews. The original pulpit, dating from 1870, is now located in the schoolroom of the Albert Hall.