ForeCourt Railings & Gatepiers at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel

The forecourt railings and gatepiers at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel are made of red brick, featuring moulded and pressed brick decorative details, with some Bath stone dressings that have been painted. The building has banded slate roofs and is designed in a simplified Romanesque style, consisting of a four-window chapel with an end facade that is divided into three sections, highlighted by a narrow projecting centrepiece and flanked by gabled sides. The gables are coped and topped with iron finials, and the ridge tiles are crested.

The centrepiece features a large arched window with a stilted arched head above paired doors, which are set in a projecting gabled Bath stone doorcase. Below the sill and at the impost level of the main window, there are bands of moulded or pressed bricks. A pierced roundel is located in the coped gable. The doorcase is supported by three piers with shouldered caps, with the centre pier 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. Above the doorcase, the window is painted ashlar with an attached shaft between two arched lights, and there is 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 centre, there are long arched windows that feature similar voussoirs and moulded brick impost bands. The eaves display decorative brickwork, and the side-facing gables have stepped corbelling. Each side of the chapel has four long arched windows, positioned between wall piers and beneath decorative brick eaves.

The forecourt is enclosed by a low brick wall topped with slate coping and Gothic cast-iron railings. The gatepiers are made of blue lias stone and have cross-gabled caps. Inside, there is an end wall gallery and a panelled roof.