Summerhill Baptist Church

The Summerhill Baptist Church is a chapel constructed in the Gothic style. The original section is built of pale stone, while a later addition is of darker, rockfaced stone with snecked details, featuring ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and tiles. The prominent gable end is dominated by a large rose window enclosed within an ashlar roundel, topped by an ashlar arch, flanked by shallow pilaster buttresses. Above this is a small apex light and a cruciform finial. Unusual deep projecting two-storey gabled staircase bays extend on either side, each with full-height angle buttresses and offsets; each bay has a long, narrow pointed arched window with a trefoil head, hoodmould, a quatrefoil panel below the sill, and pointed-arched ground floor doorways. A single-storey entrance bay connects the two staircase bays, featuring a large, moulded pointed arched doorway, reached by steps, flanked by two-light vestibule windows with dedication stones below. The coping above the doorway rises to form a gable with a decorative finial.

Inside, there is a four-sided gallery, with one side housing the organ in an arched recess. The gallery fronts display cast iron pierced panels featuring floral motifs and roundels, separated by pilasters, with a coved base. A flat ceiling is supported by metal trusses. A large rose window is present at the west end, and the long, narrow side windows are round-headed across two storeys. These windows are filled with coloured glass incorporating Art Nouveau motifs, dating from a refurbishment in 1907-8. The gallery is supported by slender cast iron piers with decorative capitals and triangular trusses. The chapel contains three blocks of pews, with those on the sides angled toward the pulpit. A part removable wood and cast iron rail surrounds the platform, which includes a large baptistry for total immersion positioned under the communion table. The interior also features wood floors and painted dado panelling. The rear vestibule, created during the 1907-8 extension, includes a central window of triple arched lights and two part-glazed boxed doors, all with coloured glass. An unusual plaque commemorates Sunday School members who died in the Great War, displayed through photographic cameos. The vestibule has a terrazzo floor with curvilinear motifs and staircases on each side with metal balusters, illuminated by long staircase windows.