The first meeting house on Castle Gate was established in 1689 under the Act of Toleration.

[2] The present building was erected in 1863 to designs by the architect Richard Charles Sutton,[3] and opened for worship in 1864.

The congregation suffered from some embarrassment in 1866 when Henry Walter Wood, local architect and surveyor petitioned for divorce from his wife on the grounds of her adultery with George Eaton Stanger, surgeon and a deacon of the Chapel.

The trial in 1867 lasted three days and was widely reported in the National press.

In 2010, the El Shaddai International Christian Centre took out a 5-year lease on the building.