Hope Baptist Peverell, Gothic in Style
The Church was built in free Gothic style. Externally the walls are of local limestone with stucco dressings and internally the walls are stuccoed with a stone finish. The windows are in keeping with the building. They are traceried and are of bathstone and glazed with lead lights. The building is entered by N.W. and S.W. doors through spacious lobbies designed to minimise external noises.

It consists of a nave, north and south aisles with transepts, and choir chancel,the aisles being separated from the nave by six boldly moulded arches supported on columns. The seating is in selected pitchpine, and there is accommodation for 433 adults, or a mixed congregation of 500. There is a wide central aisle and two side aisles and ample space in the east and west ends of the nave. In the east end of the nave, immediately in front of the chancel steps, is the open baptistery in terrazzo. There are no galleries.

The memorial pulpit, on the north side of the chancel, the reading desk, hymn board, and communion furniture (table and three chairs) are gifts to the Church, and are in richly carved oak. The open timber roof, matching the other architectural features, is of oregon pine.
On the north side of the choir chancel is the organ chamber, and on the south the minister's vestry.
The two manual organ, which was in use in the old church, has been adapted for the new building and brought thoroughly up-to-date by Messrs. He1e and Co., Ltd., of Plymouth, and is electrically blown.

Through a door in the east end of the south aisle the Church is connected with the school hall, primary room and ladies' and gentlemen's cloak rooms. There is also a large class room adapted for kitchen use when necessary, and on the first floor, above the minister's vestry and primary room, is the deacons' vestry and the caretaker's apartments. The heating throughout is by improved gas radiators, and the lighting is by electricity. Ventilation is on an approved system.

First Sunday Services
The first Sunday services in the church were conducted by the Pastor on 29th January, 1928. At a special afternoon service the Ancient Order of Foresters (Devon and Cornwall District), presented an oak communion table to the Church Secretary, Mr. Chas. H. Prust, to mark his election to the office of High Chief Ranger of the Order. Mr. Prust asked the Church to accept the gift and to dedicate it to the use of the Church. On Sunday, 5th February, the first service for the enrolment of all Sunday School scholars over eight years of age as Probationary Members of the Church was held, and in the evening of the same day the first baptisms took place. Miss Mary Damerell was the first to be baptised in the new building and Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas (the Pastor's sister) were the first to be married there.

Additional Buildings
The work of the Church in its new home had begun well but it was not yet established. The expected debt of from £2,600 to £2,800 had been suddenly reduced by £1,500 by the gift of the site. There was a Manse, but the Beginners and Primary rooms and the Church Hall were still to be built and paid for.
The debt having been reduced to £150 (interest free) by 1931, it was resolved to go ahead with the erection of the Beginners and Primary rooms.

The Memorial Stone was laid on 6th July, 1931 by scholars of these departments, and the block was opened on Wednesday, 4th December, 1931, by the late Mr. J. H. Beckley, J.P., of Messrs. John Yeo & Co. Dr. H. C. Mander, who had preached the first sermon in the new church was the special preacher and speaker, and the President of the Devon and Cornwall Baptist Association, Mr. A. H. Roberts, was the chairman of the evening Thanksgiving Meeting.
The cost of these rooms was £1,600. They were so built that a further room or rooms could be added on top and approached by a stairway which would, however, make the Beginners room smaller.
Rev Charles Dyer introduced many new ideas to the church throughout his ministry, including:
The "Peverell Outlook," first issued in April, 1927 with a local circulation of 1500 and a fair contribution from local advertising. Still today the primary source of information on the life of the Church.
The Probationary and Junior Church members scheme introduced, and removed.
Regular Church meetings to consider matters relevant to faith and witness, each concluding with Holy Communion.
The Annual Members Roll Call Fellowship Meeting, first held in 1935
Regular Holy Week and Easter services, when such services were not common in the Free Churches.
The Baptist Women's League.
Annual bazaars which paid for building debts and enriched social fellowship.
Civic lectures to help people realise their civic responsibilities.
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