Monmouth Baptist Church

Monmouth Baptist Church is a building dating to the early 20th century, constructed in a mixed Gothic style. It is built of rock-faced red sandstone with Bath limestone ashlar dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs. The prominent gable front features a bell tower, a large central gable with a projecting two-story porch, and a short end bay. The slender octagonal bell tower has sheer vertical walls to the belfry, a ground-level single-light window, and a rounded trefoil window above. The ashlar belfry has tall, louvred, ogee-arched openings, supported by engaged columns and a moulded architrave, with an oversailing roof and decorative iron finial.

The gable to the right of the porch has a gabled, two-story porch with entrance steps to the north; a tall plinth; ashlar buttresses with offsets; ashlar kneelered coping; and modern doors. A semi-circular arched panel and shield inscribed "BAPTIST CHURCH 1906" are set into the gable, below two lancet windows separated by an engaged column, and three badly eroded foundation tablets in the wall above the plinth. Behind the porch, the central gable is buttressed and contains a large Perpendicular style window of five cinquefoiled lights with tracery, a large multifoil circular window in the head, kneelered coping, and a pair of small trefoil-headed windows set between ashlar string courses. The end bay to the right is narrow, with a lancet window below and a single-light trefoil window above; an octagonal corner pier rises in two stages with moulded ashlar coping. Gabled transepts project slightly from the side elevations, which have quatrefoil and cinquefoil headed windows separated by brick buttresses and camber-headed basement windows with stone voussoirs; one basement window has been converted into a door leading to a lift. The left elevation is partially attached to a Manse, and the right elevation has iron railings and a reset gate separating it from the former Working Men's Institute. A brick vestry is located at the rear south, accessible by steps.

The interior features a modern entrance lobby, leading to the main chapel which is a large, open space without galleries. The chapel is five bays and contains a complex arch-braced hammer-beam roof that rises in two stages to an upper collar; wall posts are carried on shaped corbels, and baluster-like posts rise between the upper collar and ceiling, as well as between upper arch-braces and principal rafters. The interior has been carefully refurbished with modern seating and a raised platform with a contemporary pulpit, utilising the lozenge-panelled front pine section of the original pulpit. Pews have close-boarded backs and shaped ends, with two examples remaining at the rear. The back of the pulpit enclosure is boarded, and raised panelling behind the pulpit includes a broken pediment supported on panelled pilasters and pyramid-shaped angle blocks. An organ was installed in 1933, and a Wheelock memorial stone and a reset monument to Rev Reynold Rogers are on the north wall; alongside an obelisk and urn mounted on a rectangular tablet with a curved apron. A Bronze Brace memorial plaque is on the east wall. A tiled baptismal font is located beneath the floorboards, and meeting rooms and a kitchen are in the basement.