High Street Baptist Church CF47 8DN

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 High Street Baptist Church

CF47 8DN

Designed by T. H. Wyatt, it has a three-bay stuccoed front, the centre brought forward under a pediment and above a Serlian doorway. Channelled lower walls with pedimented upper windows. The interior was reconstructed in 1899-1900. Galleried on three sides with upper arcades carried on slender iron columns. There is a flat beamed ceiling.

The plaque read:

High Street Baptist Church 1840 Built for the English Baptists who previously used Bethel Chapel, Georgetown. The Chapel has a finely decorated interior. Pastor Luke Jenkins ran a highly regarded Sunday School here in the 1950s.

Grade II Listed

History
Built 1840.

Description
Exterior
 Bold neo-classical front of 3 bays, painted render with advanced, pedimented centre, parapets to side bays, gable crucifix. Bracket cornice, band course under recessed "High Street Chapel" tablet, deep cornice over banded rusticated ground-floor. Pediments to outer first-floor windows with leaded glazing, plain ground-floor windows. Monumental central entrance with plain arch to later vaulted porch breaking through cornice, detached Doric columns to jambs, twin pilasters flank segmental inner doorway.

One-bay return flanks in similar style, then 4-bay simple walls with plain bands and round headed upper windows with tracery.

Interior
Fine 2-storey interior with cast-iron columns supported 3-sided panelled gallery, arcade treatment at gallery level. Great platform with pulpit, big seat etc to inner wall.