When the Church was built it was designed to seat a congregation of 536 people, 280 in the body of the Church and 256 in the gallery. The Sunday School was usually attended by over 200 children. Mr Robert Curwen of London was the Architect, and he had an extremely difficult task designing a building to fit into the irregular shape of the site. Mr Curwen described the task as like “solving a Chinese Puzzle”. The diagrams below show the current building layout (not shown to scale) - the irregular shape of the land can easily be seen in the outline (the toilet area is an extension to the original building).

Downstairs plan	Upstairs plan

The contract for the building work was secured by Mr Tom Keeling of Timsbury, but owing to financial difficulties he could not finish the work. However, Mr T. C. Gregory J.P., one of the most active men in the Church, came to the rescue and completed the premises. Mr S. J. Gregory, architect, of Coombe Hill House, Radstock, acted as clerk of the works. Mr Albert Emery of Timsbury was the foreman in charge of the works throughout, and did an excellent job. The Church was originally heated by two coke-fired boilers and a low pressure water system, which is still in use, but is now heated by gas. A complete electrical re-wiring was carried out in 1997 - 1998 costing around £22,000. A fire alarm and emergency lighting system was added at this time, and the lighting in the Chapel was enhanced with a series of “uplighters” around the walls. It is sad to note that the Church has also had to be fitted with a Burglar Alarm following a series of break-ins. To coincide with Millennium Celebrations at the start of the year 2000, floodlights were installed to illuminate the front of the Church. These were switched on for the first time at a special service held at 11.30 p.m. on 31st December 1999, by our then Minister, Rev. B. Earley. It is interesting to note that, when it was opened, the Church featured a bell tower on the roof - which disappeared a few years later.