Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel

The Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel, dating primarily from 1859 with additions in 1877, is constructed from rock-faced grey limestone with Bath stone dressings and a slate roof. It is a building of group value, appreciated for its strong architectural qualities. The front elevation is a broad, four-bay Gothic design, featuring a coped gable with an iron finial. Five buttresses, built with ashlar quoins and offsets, are prominent; the outer pair are distinguished by trefoil-headed panels and pinnacles with short octagonal shafts and pointed caps featuring tiny gablets and an iron finial. The centre buttress has a short, gable-capped top aligned with the window heads, while the others have additional offsets and a similar gable-capped top with a trefoil panel. A large, ashlar-framed blank roundel is set into the gable, with an inscription indicating the years 1859 and 1877, although the infill is a 20th-century imitation stone. The first floor contains two-light pointed windows with cusped tracery, hoodmoulds, and stone voussoirs. Quatrefoil roundels with stone voussoirs are also present. The ground floor has two pointed doors with cusped Y-tracery fanlights, hoodmoulds and stone voussoirs, although the doors themselves are 20th-century replacements.

The side walls incorporate similar two-light windows to those on the front, with slightly differing tracery. Moulded sills extend to the adjacent buttresses. The walls are roughly plastered. There are three tall, cambered-headed windows with marginal glazing bars on each side. A roughcast, two-storey vestry and schoolroom is attached to the rear, with a double-fronted design featuring two cambered-headed windows on the upper floor, two flat-headed windows below, and a central door, all with stone sills. A three-window range extends to the rear.

Inside, a three-sided gallery is supported by seven cast-iron fluted columns with furled leaf capitals. The gallery front features a cornice, long panels with cast-iron pierced inserts in a scroll and anthemion pattern, and panelled pilasters. The chapel contains pitch-pine pews arranged in three blocks, with the side pews canted. Shaped bench ends include small doors. A great seat has a curved rail on cast-iron uprights with scrolled brackets. The pulpit is accessed by steps and features chamfered newels, finials, and rails with inset circles. The platform has short, double-curved sides and a three-sided pulpit with ornate fretwork panels, angle shafts, and a moulded top rail. The plastered pulpit back includes an ogee top over panelled pilasters with egg-and-dart borders. A lobby incorporates two doors and a centre window with etched coloured glass margins. The ceiling is panelled with moulded ribs, a large plaster rose, two smaller roses, and eight vents – two square and six round.