Summerhill Baptist Church

Chapel, in Gothic style. The earlier build of pale stone and the later darker, rockfaced and snecked, with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate and tiled roof. Gable-end frontage is dominated by a large rose window with chunky tracery in an ashlar roundel, surmounted by an ashlar arch, flanked by shallow pilaster buttresses; above is a small apex light and cruciform finial. Projecting on each side to an unusual depth are 2-storey gabled staircase bays with full height angle buttresses with offsets; a long narrow pointed arched window with trefoil head, hoodmould and quatrefoil panel below sill and pointed-arched lower ground floor doorways. Linking the two staircase bays is a single storey entrance bay with large moulded pointed arched doorway to centre reached by a flight of steps, flanked by 2-light vestibule windows with dedication stones below; the coping is raised to form a gable over the doorway with decorative finial.

4-sided gallery, the end occupied by the organ set in an arched recess, the other 3 sides raked. Gallery fronts are of cast iron pierced panels with a floral motif and roundels, separated by pilasters, coved at base. Flat ceiling with metal trusses. Large rose window at W; long narrow side windows are round-headed through two storeys; all have coloured glass with Art Nouveau motifs dating from the 1907-8 refurbishment. Gallery is supported by very slender cast iron piers with decorative capitals and triangular trusses. 3 blocks of pews, those at side angled, face the pulpit. In front is a part removable wood and cast iron rail to the platform which contains a large baptistry for total immersion under the communion table. Wood floors and painted dado panelling. To rear the vestibule created by the 1907-8 extension has a centre window of triple arched lights and 2 side part glazed boxed doors, all with coloured glass. On the wall is an unusual plaque commemorating in photographic cameos members of the Sunday School fallen in the Great War. The vestibule has a terrazzo floor with curvilinear motifs and staircases up each side with metal balusters lit by long staircase windows.