Mount Pleasant Baptist School Blocks

Mount Pleasant Baptist School Blocks is a notable building featuring a striking five-bay front made of Bath stone, which is enhanced by a tetrastyle Corinthian portico. The pediment includes an oculus with vermiculated keystones. The roof is modern and covered with pantiles, while the side bays have balustraded parapets and Corinthian pilasters. The first floor has arched windows, with the center window being blind, and all windows feature keyblocked architraves with imposts, balustered aprons, and marginal glazing bars. The ground floor openings are treated similarly, adorned with acanthus keyblocks, foliage trail spandrels, and vermiculated blocks on the jambs, along with three-panel double doors. A central scalloped niche is present, and a wide flight of steps leads up from a paved area, flanked by modern railings and piers. The one-bay returns maintain a similar style, while the rest of the side elevations are rendered and feature tall round-headed windows with arched tracery. The right-hand elevation includes Corinthian pilasters and moulded eaves.

To the left, there is a school-room block set back, which has a two-storey rendered gable with Corinthian pilasters and an oculus above three arched windows on each storey. To the right, an additional block is set back and features a two-storey and attic pedimented front with Corinthian corner pilasters, three lights in echelon over four arched windows per storey, and cill and impost bands. An arched doorcase is located on the ground floor to the right. The building has a six-bay flank elevation facing Dynevor Place, and the rear is pedimented in a similar manner.

Inside, the long rectangular space has a flat ceiling adorned with three roses featuring plasterwork foliage and a moulded cornice. There is a three-sided gallery front with a triglyph frieze and panels above the cornice, supported by cast-iron columns. The organ recess at the inner end has a Venetian window treatment above a Gothic pulpit, which is complemented by twin decorative ironwork handrails. The organ dates from 1905.