Worship began in the house of Charles Stevenson of Sherwood but they quickly realised the growing need in Carrington and started services in a room above the Co-operative Stores.

they purchased an old methodist chapel in 1856 in Wesley Street, Carrington, and by 1870 had erected some temporary school rooms.

The foundation stones of the current building were laid on 19 August 1882 by Mrs. J. Bryan, Alderman Gripper, John Dexter and Mr. J. Rogers JP.

The school rooms and lecture hall were opened on 7 January 1883[2] In 1933 the congregation decided to sell the building as a better site had been identified on Valley Road and there was no room for expansion on Sherbrooke Road,[3] but these plans appear to have fallen through.

In 1943, the minister, Walter Abbott, was sent to prison for 3 months and fined £100 (equivalent to £5,700 in 2023)[4] for failing to register for Civil Defence duties.