Zoar Baptist Chapel

Zoar Baptist Chapel is a building of group value, dating from 1836. It has a half-hipped slate roof and is rendered externally. The main front has a wide porch with a central gable and side hips. The entrance doorway is pointed-arched and features a Y-traceried overlight and double doors. Above the porch, an inscribed stone tablet reads "ZOAR 1836." The side elevations each contain three pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and stone sills, with nine panes on the west side and seven panes on the east. The rear of the chapel has a single-storey lean-to vestry and a small five-pane Y-traceried window to the east, with a boarded door to the west. A brick stack with a plain oversailing course is located on the north gable.

The interior remains virtually unchanged since 1836 and retains a very strong original character. Double doors lead to a broad vestibule with an attractive pointed-arched vault and a stone flagged floor. The interior face of the entrance doors has eight panels with plain chamfered mouldings. Six-panel doors lead from the vestibule to the main chapel. A small, single-cell chapel, without a gallery, features pleasingly grained interior woodwork. Box pews flank the aisles, displaying characteristic early 19th-century moulded panelling with smaller horizontal panels over taller vertical panels. A middle block of seats is raised on a boarded floor, with two rows of box pews at the back and movable open-backed benches in front. A centre stove is present, accompanied by a tall tin flue. The ceiling is plain with no cornice, ceiled at collar level, and incorporates two small rectangular ventilator openings. The set fawr, also from 1836, is an unusual survival and features a long, narrow balustrade raised on a plain panelled base with turned newels and balusters, and a stair to the right. The front rail of the balustrade curves up either side of an off-centre reading desk, which is supported on shaped brackets. The back of the pulpit platform has a dado of plain panelling and a full-length attached bench with shaped supports. Behind the reading desk are taller panels with shaped wings and an inset pulpit seat with curved arms and turned legs. The interior is described as charming and very unaltered for the period.