Forecourt, Railings, Piers and Gates

The building is the Forecourt, Railings, Piers, and Gates of the Wesleyan Chapel, now known as Zion Free Church, constructed between 1846 and 1848, likely designed by John Road. The front parapet and pediment were raised or altered in 1857, and the building was extended to the rear in 1866-1867 by K W Ladd. It underwent renovations in 1882, 1911, and 1986. This large-scale classical chapel features a painted stucco two-storey facade and a slate roof. The front has five windows arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern, with the center section projecting forward under a raised pediment dated 1848, while the wings have plain parapets.

The ground floor is elevated and has four plain piers, a band above, and four upper pilasters (originally with Ionic capitals) supporting a deep entablature with a coved cornice. The windows are arched, consisting of 30 panes with intersecting tracery heads. The central ground-floor area features three large arched doorways with triple folding panelled doors and iron radiating tracery in the fanlights. The side elevation is three-storey with five windows.

Old photographs indicate that the ground floor was channelled with radiating voussoirs around the openings, and the upper center windows had moulded architraves and more elaborate detailing on the main entablature and blocking course above, which displayed 'Wesley Chapel' in raised letters.

The front iron railings, set on a low coped stone wall with cast-iron piers, were installed along with the forecourt in 1857. There are five Grecian-style railings flanking the doorways.

Inside, the chapel has a fine and cohesive interior despite various alterations, including the addition of a W gallery and organ in 1867, and changes to the entrance lobby and pews in 1882 when the organ was rebuilt. Unspecified works took place in 1911. The interior features a flat plaster ceiling with a Greek coved cornice and two large bordered roses, complemented by twelve smaller roses. The four-sided gallery is supported by seven painted Roman Doric columns on pedestals above pew level. The pulpit is made of handsome grained wood and is unusually high, raised on eight painted wood columns and accessed by curving timber stairs on each side, with turned balusters echoed in the curved rail in front of the pulpit. The pulpit front has figured veneer panels, and there is a grained wood case for the organ. Beneath the chapel, there are schoolrooms supported by iron columns.