Kensington Baptist Chapel

The congregation was founded on 25 July 1831. Its first place of worship was in the Thrissell Street Chapel, which was then the only Baptist chapel in the parish of St Philip and Jacob. This original building was destroyed by fire on 20 February 1855, believed to have been caused by over-heated gas pipes in the singing gallery. While the main chapel was gutted, the adjoining schoolrooms were saved, and the congregation met at Castle Green Chapel during the reconstruction works in 1856. By 1877, under the Rev. W. Osborne, the chapel had been renovated and the Sunday school had doubled in extent, though the building remained inadequate for the dense population of the area. In 1881, the Rev.…

Designed by Thomas Lennox Watson of Glasgow, the church is a Neoclassical building described as Grecian in style. The symmetrical frontage features a broken-forward pediment and a first-floor distyle in antis Corinthian loggia. The base is constructed of Pennant stone, while the upper walls are Box ground Bath stone. The building was constructed at a cost of £7,046. Internally, the church comprises two principal spaces: the Muller Hall, located nearest to Seymour Road, and the Community Hall, which sits closest to Stapleton Road. The interior measures 80 feet long by 54 feet wide and contains galleries on all four sides supported by columns. In recent years, the church has undertaken…