The Church housing the Gallery is a Victorian building, a simple brick rectangle building with large windows, wooden floors and a stone façade it was built by the United Reformed Church to house a Methodist congregation. Its simplicity is the key to its feelings of calm and peacefulness.

Originally there was no Organ, no stage or Choir stalls (balcony), all these things went in at the same time in 1934. With the pews, the wainscoting and choir stalls being finished in a deep brown. The acoustics are perfect in their set up for voices to be heard crystal clear from above to the stage where the organ sits, which still works and is regularly played. All the woodwork was painted seaside blue in the 1950s, with a matching carpet laid at a later date.

The Methodist congregation worshipped up until December 2024, when the church was going to close but Sarah was asked if the Gallery could be set up in there; could contribute to writing up the plans to save the church and if they could lead the Building works needed to save it.

Meetings took place and the Gallery became involved in applying to the URC to keep the church open, providing plans as to how financially it could work and liaising with a local charity to support this application.

Bay Unite, with Community, Creativity & Contemplation at its centre came out of those meetings. An Art Gallery, a Community café, pop up worship, classical music programme and the facilitating of support groups like AA are its foundations.

The Sarah Baulch Gallery led this venture, provided the vision for how the space looks, the groundwork for how it works as a multi-purpose arts venue and galvanised Volunteers into getting involved in this project.