Hope Baptist Chapel including attached vestry and schoolroom

Hope Baptist Chapel is a large Gothic Revival chapel built with pale sandstone dressings and grey hammer-dressed facings in thin courses, topped with slate roofs featuring a ventilator at the main ridge. The main façade has three bays and is gabled, flanked by polygonal turrets. A large Geometric-traceried window sits centrally, with a porch gable that rises into a blind frieze decorated with five cusped panels of alternating designs. Stepped buttresses support the central doorway, which features a deeply moulded arch-head and double boarded doors with strapwork hinges. Single cusped lancets with hoodmoulds rise towards the flanking stair towers, which are topped with transverse slated gables and diagonal corner buttresses.

The side elevations are two-storey and feature tall return ranges that form a T-plan at the south end, with traceried heads on 2-light windows and square-headed lancets on the ground floor. The downhill elevation facing Derwen Road has three storeys, a pointed doorway, and plain sash windows leading to the church hall. Attached to the south end are lean-to vestries, with gables that match the church offices and Sunday School, completing the group along Station Hill.

Inside, the spacious T-plan features a ribbed and boarded ceiling with a five-sided profile, supported by tie-rods linked to the feet of trusses. An exceptional cantilevered gallery, constructed on a metalwork frame and concealed by a sinuous panelled front, sweeps forward from the transepts and encircles the main north galleried end. The openwork metal-panelled front has a concave palmette frieze above fluted bolection moulding, with sinuous timber handrails. A full-height blind Gothic arch flanked by smaller openings rises behind a polygonal reading desk, which has an alabaster parapet leading to the immersion pool at the front. The vestibule under the north gallery features twin baluster stairs leading to the upper level, and Art Nouveau patterned glass adorns the window heads. The church hall is located beneath the main chapel and has I-beam floor joists.