History

Built 1862-3 for £753.8.4½ by William Harris and John Richards, masons and Joshua Morris and Son, Newport, carpenters.

Exterior

1863, rubble stone with slate roof. Stucco gable front. Flanking raised piers with impost bands and caps under granite three-pointed finials. Coped centre medium-pitched gable with small granite finials. Main facade is slightly recessed under four-centred pointed broad arch springing from pier imposts. Two long, round-arched windows with centre timber mullion, Y-tracery heads and small-pane glazing. Round arched centre door with Y-tracery head and Y-tracery glazing bars to each light. Cusped trefoil between. Double doors. Pair of narrow, round-arched windows with single sill and small-paned glazing over door and date plaque ‘Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel AD 1867’ above. Two-window range each side and 2 to N end wall.

Forecourt has rubble stone in-curving walls from street and pair of iron gates between granite piers.

Interior

Unaltered interior with panel-fronted gallery on 3 sides carried on 3 x 3 marbled wood columns on high bases. Complete set of box pews. Raised pulpit reached by paired stairs each side, front ornamented with intersected half-circles. Centre rear wall has large blank panel in open segmental-pedimented frame on 2 long, marbled columns. Flat panelled roof with canted sides. Centre rose and chandelier.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29490685

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record