Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel

1863, rubble stone with slate roof. Stucco gable front. Flanking raised piers with impost bands and caps under granite three-pointed finials. Coped centre medium-pitched gable with small granite finials. Main facade is slightly recessed under four-centred pointed broad arch springing from pier imposts. Two long, round-arched windows with centre timber mullion, Y-tracery heads and small-pane glazing. Round arched centre door with Y-tracery head and Y-tracery glazing bars to each light. Cusped trefoil between. Double doors. Pair of narrow, round-arched windows with single sill and small-paned glazing over door and date plaque ‘Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel AD 1867’ above. Two-window range each side and 2 to N end wall.

Forecourt has rubble stone in-curving walls from street and pair of iron gates between granite piers.

Unaltered interior with panel-fronted gallery on 3 sides carried on 3 x 3 marbled wood columns on high bases. Complete set of box pews. Raised pulpit reached by paired stairs each side, front ornamented with intersected half-circles. Centre rear wall has large blank panel in open segmental-pedimented frame on 2 long, marbled columns. Flat panelled roof with canted sides. Centre rose and chandelier.