Muni Arts Centre

This building comprises a geometrical style former chapel, a lower former Sunday school, and associated ancillary structures, dating from the 18th century and displaying group value. The chapel is situated parallel to the road, with the Sunday school positioned to its right, its gable facing the road. The construction utilizes coursed rock-faced sandstone, lighter freestone dressings, and a slate roof.

The prominent three-stage tower with spire is the focal point of the exterior and projects from the right end of the chapel’s street frontage. It features angle buttresses to the lower two stages. The main doorway is sheltered by a projecting gablet, incorporating two orders of shafts with annulets, foliage capitals, a moulded arch, and replaced double doors and overlight. The middle stage of the tower contains three narrow cusped lights with a plain impost band, above which is a moulded string course. The upper stage has two tall and narrow transomed windows, each featuring two lights with subsidiary mullions above the transoms and geometrical tracery. A plain parapet projects from a moulded corbel table. The octagonal ribbed spire rises from a short base which is diagonally buttressed and pierced by arches. The spire has large, exaggerated lucarnes in the cardinal directions, each incorporating a single lancet with louvres.

The main chapel, now used as a theatre and cinema, consists of six buttressed bays, with buttresses rising to gablets at eaves level. Each bay features a two-light window with alternating tracery designs and a sill band. A bay set back from the left end has double boarded doors beneath the window. The left gable end incorporates an integral, lower gabled projection, now housing the stage, with stepped angle buttresses and an infilled large pointed window. An added projection facing the street is located to the right side of the stage projection, with plain openings and a roof concealed behind a parapet. To the left side of this stage projection is an outshut.

The former Sunday school, now a gallery and café, is located to the right of the tower and is gabled. It has two two-light windows with Y-tracery and a sill band, and a circular gable window featuring quatrefoils in the tracery. The right side wall features three pairs of lancets with a plain sill band, followed by a lean-to porch with a chamfered two-centred doorway and boarded door. Further to the right is a two-storey gabled projection, its eaves higher than the Sunday School but with a lower roof apex. This projection has narrow windows under lintels on each storey.

At the rear, facing a car park at a higher ground level, an added projection extends from the main chapel. The gable end of the chapel behind the tower has three infilled stepped lancets, while the Sunday school has escape doors.

The original chapel is now a theatre and cinema. The Sunday school includes an inserted upper storey, housing the gallery, which contains a four-bay arched-brace roof, boarded above the level of the collar beams.