[1] The original Congregational church in Chingford was founded in 1888, initially meeting at a café in Station Road called the Victoria Coffee Palace.

A plot of land was bought by the church in 1889 and a temporary corrugated iron building, or "tin tabernacle" was erected on the site.

[2] The architect of the hall was Rowland Plumbe; it was eventually sold by the church and converted into apartments in 2004.

[4] Of red brick with stone banding, the west frontage facing Buxton Road has a triple entrance under a large Perpendicular Gothic window, leaded in the Art Nouveau style.

Internally, a foyer below a gallery gives entry to a square nave, made octagonal by stone arches in the corners.