St David's Presbyterian Church and Hall

This is a Presbyterian church and hall, built in an Early Gothic style influenced by the designs of William Burges. The buildings were constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century and combined as a single composition. The chapel is built of snecked rock-faced sandstone with pink stone banding, with Bathstone dressings to the front and yellow-brick dressings to the sides. It has a modern tiled roof, while the hall has a clay tiled roof.

The chapel’s main body has angle buttresses with gablets. The lower level features four lancet windows with foundation tablets below, while the upper level has three taller lancets with a sill band. Diagonal shafts rise from the inner spandrels of these windows to frame a cusped round window in the gable. On each side are single-story porches with Gothic doorways. Behind the porches, set back behind parapets, are hipped-roof half-timbered pavilions with four-light windows, providing access to the gallery stairs. The side elevations, also hipped, contain four bays with paired Gothic windows lighting the gallery, and below these are two-light mullion and transom windows. The rear of the chapel has a gabled organ projection with an upper rose window, and a ground floor polygonal minister's room.

The hall, situated to the left of the chapel, has a polygonal front end with a two-light plate tracery window and side windows illuminating the gallery stairs. A blind tripartite mullioned window sits beneath the main window. Doorways, with boarded doors in pointed arches, are located in lean-tos to the left and right; the left-hand lean-to is hipped. A pointed archway on the left side provides access to a rear entrance. The side elevation includes a higher gabled transept with three stepped lancets at the upper level and a three-light window below, extending for four bays with paired windows. A porch at a right angle is situated at the rear.

The side lobbies feature polychrome tiled floors, a wooden stair with turned newels, and half-glazed double doors. The church interior is broad and contains a steeply-raked, three-sided gallery supported by cast iron octagonal ground floor columns with foliage capitals, which in turn support columns with clustered shafts, holding up the roof. The gallery front is panelled. The six-bay arched-brace roof has moulded principals on corbels and large boarded ceiling panels with broad ribs. The organ, by W Hill & Son and dated 1903, is housed in an arched recess behind the pulpit, the arch featuring two orders of chamfer, the inner order resting on moulded corbels. Behind the polygonal panelled pulpit is the organ seat, its back displaying similar blind Gothic panels.

The hall’s vestibule contains a staircase in the polygonal front bay, notable for its turned newels and balusters with moulded tread ends. A half-glazed gallery screen sits at the top of the stairs, leading to double doors into the hall. Within the hall is a single-sided gallery with a panelled front similar to that of the main chapel, supported by a single Tuscan column and with corbels in the side walls. The five-bay arched-brace roof has diagonal boarding behind.