Umberslade Baptist Church

The church is constructed in blue lias stone with limestone dressings. The steep roofs are of Welsh slate and are hipped and gabled. It has a four bay nave with a north porch, north and south transepts, a chancel terminating in an apse, and a southwest tower, with a spire, incorporating another porch. The style is Decorated and it is elaborately detailed including pinnacles with finials. Around the church are lancet windows, those in the transepts have rose windows above them. The tower is in three stages. It has diagonal buttresses on three corners rising to the full height of the tower, surmounted by pinnacles. On the northeast corner is an octagonal stair turret with an embattled summit. The bottom stage of the tower has a west doorway with an arch under an ornamented porch. In the middle stage there are trefoil windows. The tall top stage has a clock face on each side over which are lancet bell openings. At the summit is a pierced quatrefoil parapet. The spire has gabled lucarnes.[1]

Internally the original furnishings are largely intact. They include the benches, the organ, the stained glass, and a Gothic style pulpit, in front of which is an open baptistry. On the floors are encaustic tiles.[2] The two-manual organ was built by Bishop & Son of London in about 1878.[4] There are eight chiming bells, all cast in 1878 by Gillett & Bland of Croydon, who also installed a chiming machine and a carillon. After being derelict for a time, the bells were restored in 1978 but, in the absence of an electrical supply, they cannot be sounded by the chiming machine.[5]