Argoed Baptist Church

Argoed Baptist Church is a small rural chapel built in the 19th century. It features narrow coursed rubble stone walls with pecked sandstone dressings and a gabled slate roof adorned with terracotta ridge tiles and a central ornamental ventilator made of tin. The chapel has a two-storey, two-window range of flat-headed windows on the lateral facade, a central name plaque, and evidence of two blocked entrances. The 20th-century timber windows have flat sandstone lintels above and stone sills below. Old photographs indicate that the original windows were small-paned sashes. The left end wall includes double boarded doors with a fanlight that has intersecting tracery and stone voussoirs, along with a segmental-arched 16-pane sash window above. On the opposite end wall, there are two tall arched windows with cut stone arches and late 19th or 20th-century glazing. A vestry has been added to the rear left, featuring four-paned windows flanking a newer entrance porch.

Inside, the chapel has a simple yet elegant design dating from 1851. There is a three-sided gallery open to the end wall, which includes a clock and curved corners, supported by five simple iron columns cast by M&RJ (possibly M. and R. John) of Merthyr. The painted gallery front has exceptionally long panels above a moulded cornice. The ground floor features box pews that are slightly raked towards the back, along with raked open-back gallery pews, all painted to resemble wood grain. The later pulpit platform has straight steps on either side, with turned newels and balusters, and a new wrought iron front replacing the original balusters. The panelled timber pulpit front includes a central lozenge panel. The coved plaster ceiling has a central plaster rose flanked by ornamental round pierced cast-iron ventilators. Behind the pulpit, there is a raised plaster arch with a plaque dedicated to Rev. Thomas Davies. The tiled foyer features intersecting tracery in the window, matching the fanlight above the main door. The vestry has plain boarded folding doors and wainscotting.