[1] The chapel was built from 1728 to 1729 as a meeting house for English Dissenters, who had previously met under John Fox at Fullwood Hall.

[2] The chapel is the second-oldest religious building in south or west Sheffield, after Beauchief Abbey.

A tablet above the two central windows reads "Built 1729 in pursuance of the last Will of Mr W Roncksley".

At the same time, the early nineteenth century village stocks were then moved to lie in front of the building, and these are now also Grade II listed.

[5] Samuel Plimsoll is believed to have worshipped at the chapel in the 1860s, and his first daughter may be buried under its floor.