Bethel Welsh Baptist Chapel

This is a late 19th-century Italianate classical Welsh Baptist chapel. It stands two storeys high with a three-bay front and a prominent, raised, three-window central bay topped with a pediment. The exterior is constructed from rubble stone with Bath stone dressings, including a dressed plinth band and quoins. The slate roof has tiled cresting and steeper hipped cross roofs with ironwork cresting to the front outer bays, and a cement-rendered chimney stack. An attic datestone is set within a bulls-eye roundel above the window cill, and bracket cornices support a plain entablature. The front features paired, polished granite Corinthian pilasters that flank linked arched windows with keystones and divided by fluted pilasters, with marginal glazing bars and quatrefoil oculi. A balustraded apron is present below, with faceted panels at each end. Paired, raised gabled porches, each with finials on a granite column with heavily foliated capitals, provide access via single flights of steps. The porches have arched recesses, punched tympani, and panelled doors. A balustraded parapet with urn finials and a "machicolated" cornice wraps around the corner. Similar arched windows are found on the first floor, while the ground floor windows are square-headed with cambered lintels.

The side elevations are faced with cement render, feature a continuous cornice and banding, and include a rusticated basement. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars are present, with arched heads on the first floor, architraves on the ground floor, and cambered heads to the basement. A scribed cement render northeast end incorporates a louvred roundel.

The interior is an exceptional, classically detailed, rectangular space with galleries. The plaster ceiling has coved cornices, deep foliated ribs radiating from large, central rose designs and four surrounding smaller roundels, which curve down to a dentil cornice with advanced corbels. A curved and panelled gallery front is supported by cast iron cylindrical composite capitals on brackets, and provides raked seating. A full-height classical reredos stands behind a stepped platform; it surrounds a rose window at the top with volute brackets over a dentil cornice, and paired fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking blind arched panels. Ornate ironwork parapets with panelled bases define the great seat, and richly foliated arched panels frame the pulpit; these carvings are by Messrs Powell and Son of Abergavenny. Raised panelled doors are located on either side of the pulpit, and an organ is set against the front wall. A stained glass window in the entrance hall is dated 1889. A basement contains a school room and is supported by plain cast-iron columns.

An iron-railed paved forecourt leads to the front, with piers capped by pediments; taller gate piers with "pineapple" finials mark the entrance to the graveyard to the right.