Bethania Baptist Chapel

Bethania Baptist Chapel is a Grade II* listed building, designed in a classical style. It features an unpainted stucco facade at the north end and blue lias rubble on the two-storey, four-window sides. The roof is slate with deep eaves and has a pediment supported by paired timber brackets.

The front of the chapel has an open pediment over a broad, segmental arched, two-storey, three-window centre, flanked by narrow, windowless rusticated side bays. The centre has arched windows above, with the middle window being broader and originally fitted with glazing bars, which were replaced with leaded glazing in the early 20th century. Arched hoodmoulds adorn the windows. The middle window, which was a tripartite sash, is set higher and features a blank tympanum with a stucco fan. The ground floor has a rectangular window on each side of a large Greek Doric pedimented porch, which is supported by paired columns and pilaster responds. Inside the porch are double panelled doors and an original traceried overlight. The cornice extends across from the porch, lacking triglyphs, and continues across the slightly advanced outer bays, which have rusticated pilasters on each floor. The ground floor features a flattened-arched recess with pilaster jambs and rustication above, while the first floor has mid-height blank recesses in the rusticated wall with cambered heads and sills. The words 'Baptist' and 'Chapel' are displayed in raised letters. Beneath the main arch of the centre is a scroll-pedimented plaque that reads 'Bethania 1847'.

The sides of the chapel have arched sashes above and 12-pane sashes below. The rear has an open pediment with paired arched recesses below and two arched windows. A single-storey vestry, built in 1882 and also made of blue lias, obscures the ground floor and has a gable end facing west. It features arched windows.

The forecourt is enclosed by fine spearhead railings and matching double gates, with openwork gatepiers and stanchions. The piers are topped with cornices and urns, while the stanchions have anthemion finials. There are later 19th-century iron rails at the rear of the churchyard leading onto Priory Street.

Inside, the chapel remains largely unaltered, featuring a rich plaster cornice, a flat ceiling, and a festive centre lozenge with arabesques of classical plant motifs surrounding a small domelet. It contains box pews and a gallery supported by Roman Doric cast-iron columns, complete with an entablature and timber panelled gallery front. The pulpit and set fawr were added in 1900, along with an organ by P Conacher and Co from Huddersfield, also from 1900.