Totterdown Baptist church is a great hulk of a building close to the crest of the Wells Road and is an important part of the streetscape of this Victorian suburb. 
It was erected in 1881 and designed by Alfred Harford who no doubt built other chapels in the city. 
It is in what one can best describe as a Bristol Romanesque style. 
The church is of pennant stone and was erected at a cost of £2100 and had vestries and galleries.
Some of the detailing on the facade is showing signs of weathering May 2004) but it is a very busy design with porches flanking a row of six lower windows. 
Paired round-headed lights above the doors, a design continued around onto the side walls above groupings of three square-headed lights.