Bethel Baptist Church including NW Schoolroom and area railings

Bethel Baptist Church, built in 1845, features rock-faced grey limestone with Bath stone dressings and a slate roof topped with a gabled ogee-domed ventilator. The building showcases an eclectic round-arched style, with a prominent gable front that serves as an advanced centerpiece flanked by single-storey lobbies. The sides have four long arched windows, with the gallery level distinguished by ashlar panels, and there is a two-storey schoolroom at the west end.

The main facade includes an ashlar open pediment with console brackets on raised outer piers, and a cornice across the center that is interrupted by two arched window heads. The gable features an ashlar lozenge and a neo-Grec finial. The set-back flank walls have a slightly lower ashlar cornice and parapet with consoles at the outer angles. The two central windows are adorned with thin metal 'Florentine' tracery, ashlar surrounds, and a flush band extending to the outer piers, along with a sill course. The outer lobbies have a plinth, a triplet of narrow arched lights, and a cornice with zig-zag decoration on the parapets. The outer piers of the center feature a similar cornice and blocking course, but without zig-zag decoration, and include a large Romanesque moulded arched doorway inscribed 'Baptist + Bethel + Chapel', flanked by flush bands and a plinth, with two small roundels in the spandrels. The entrance has big double doors topped with a half-wheel fanlight.

Surrounding the church are elaborate contemporary iron railings with spearheads and intricate lower tracery, set on a low coped wall, along with two stone entrance piers.

The integrated northwest schoolroom has a hipped porch at the angle of a projecting gable, featuring ashlar coping on scrolled shoulders. The first-floor window is a large camber-headed design with two lights divided by an iron column, while the ground floor has a three-light, flat-headed window supported by two iron columns.

Inside, the nave and aisles retain an elaborate unaltered interior, with thin iron columns supporting galleries and timber arched brackets leading to the ceiling. The three-sided gallery has a notched and panelled front. A high pulpit is flanked by iron-raised steps, with an organ loft behind featuring a painted Gothic organ case. Stencil decoration adorns the ceiling and gallery panels.