Mount Zion Baptist Chapel, Priory Street

Mount Zion Baptist Chapel is a 19th-century building located on Priory Street. It is constructed of red brick with decorative details made from moulded and pressed bricks, along with some Bath stone dressings that have been painted. The chapel features banded slate roofs and has a four-window design with an end facade in a simplified Romanesque style. The facade is divided into three sections, with a narrow projecting center and gabled flanks on either side. It has coped gables topped with iron finials and crested ridge tiles.

The centerpiece of the facade includes a large arched window with a stilted arch above paired doors set in a projecting gabled Bath stone doorcase. Below the window sill and at the impost level, there are bands of moulded or pressed bricks. A pierced roundel is located in the coped gable. The doorcase features three piers with shouldered caps, while the center pier is cut back to accommodate an attached column shaft. The tympanum above the doors has a carved vine-leaf lunette, and the arch voussoirs are decorated with fleur-de-lys. The window above the doorcase is painted ashlar with an attached shaft between two arched lights, and it has a carved roundel in the arch head with fleur-de-lys voussoirs. An ashlar plinth and a band of black brick run around the chapel.

On either side of the center, there are long arched windows that have similar voussoirs and moulded brick impost bands. The eaves display decorative brickwork, while the side-facing gables feature stepped corbelling. Each side of the chapel has four long arched windows positioned between wall piers and beneath the decorative brick eaves.

The forecourt is enclosed by a low brick wall with slate coping and Gothic cast-iron railings. Blue lias stone gatepiers with cross-gabled caps mark the entrance. Inside, there is an end wall gallery and a panelled roof.