Travers's executors subsequently sold the house to Hans Sloane, the owner of the manor of Chelsea, in 1737.

The Beaufort Ground was leased for 91 years to the trustees of the Moravian congregation, an expatriate Protestant denomination, who had previously acquired the adjoining Lindsey House.

The community intended to start a Moravian settlement named Sharon on the rest of the Beaufort Ground, but were financially precluded from doing so by Zinzendorf's departure from England in 1755.

[4] The chapel was designed by 1958 by Hector Corfiato and is described in its Historic England heritage listing as demonstrating "a fine example of structural rationalism, dominated by a dramatic concrete-grid façade, and using the internal portal frame to fine dramatic and spatial effect".

[4] In her biography of Roger Fry, written in 1940, Virginia Woolf wrote that "Beaufort Street, whatever may have happened to the world since 1892, is practically unchanged.