Caersalem Newydd Baptist Chapel

Caersalem Newydd Baptist Chapel is a classical chapel built in coursed squared rubble stone with painted ashlar dressings. It features a moulded pediment with a roundel and a cornice over a three-bay front, which is divided by Roman Doric pilasters on a vermiculated rusticated plinth. The cornice bears the inscription 'Caersalem Newydd Baptist Chapel Erected 1840 Enlarged 1873'. The roundel in the pediment has quatrefoil tracery. The broader central bay contains an arched triplet window flanked by pilasters, with moulded arches and keystones. The outer bays have long arched windows with glazing that includes marginal bars. There are paired arched doorways in the centre with moulded frames, but no capitals or keystones, featuring plain 20th-century doors and fanlights. The side walls are rendered, with the north side having one arched window on each side of an added vestry, while the south side has a similar window on each side of a terraced house. The vestry on the north side is made of unpainted stucco and has a central gable with three arched windows, the middle one set higher.

Inside, there is a four-sided gallery supported by cast-iron columns. The gallery features a double-curved cast-iron continuous frontal with delicate pierced ironwork and a deep painted timber modillion cornice below. It has fluted columns with acanthus capitals, apparently made of plaster. There are three blocks of pine pews with rosettes incised on the bench ends, and the outer pews are canted. A matching curved-ended 'set fawr' is also present. The pulpit has delicate scrolled iron balustrading at the half-round front and curving stairs on each side. The organ in the gallery, made by Blackett & Howden, has a Gothic case with ornate painted pipes and is flanked by arched windows. The raked gallery pews are curved to follow the gallery front. The lobby features a cambered-headed window with etched and coloured glass in the margins and two half-glazed doors. The dog-leg gallery stairs lead up to the gallery. The ceiling is adorned with a fine cornice with modillions, followed by a cove and a ceiling border with foliate scrolls and other mouldings, surrounding a flat plastered centre. This centre has a diagonally-boarded border with four square and four round fretted vents, and a diagonally ribbed centre with two fine plaster roses featuring a fleshy leaf pattern in outer rings of vine pattern.