Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel

Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel was built in 1863 and is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. The chapel features a stucco gable front with flanking raised piers that have impost bands and caps topped with granite three-pointed finials. The center has a medium-pitched gable that is coped and includes small granite finials. The main facade is slightly recessed and has a broad, four-centred pointed arch that springs from the pier imposts. There are two long, round-arched windows with a central timber mullion, Y-tracery heads, and small-pane glazing. The round-arched center door also features a Y-tracery head and Y-tracery glazing bars in each light, with a cusped trefoil above and double doors below. Above the door is a date plaque reading ‘Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel AD 1867’, flanked by a pair of narrow, round-arched windows with single sills and small-paned glazing. The chapel has a two-window range on each side and two on the north end wall.

The forecourt is enclosed by rubble stone in-curving walls that lead from the street, with a pair of iron gates set between granite piers.

Inside, the chapel remains unaltered and features a panel-fronted gallery on three sides, supported by three marbled wood columns on high bases. It contains a complete set of box pews and a raised pulpit accessed by paired stairs on either side, with the front decorated with intersected half-circles. The center rear wall has a large blank panel framed in an open segmental pediment supported by two long marbled columns. The roof is flat with canted sides, featuring a central rose and chandelier.