On this stood a number of shooting lodges including one at Crackpot, near Keld, and one at Smarber, a small hamlet on the ridge to the west of Low Row.

A Puritan sympathiser, in around 1690 Wharton converted part of the Smarber lodge into a chapel for ‘Protestant Dissenters’.

It was a small, simple building; the lower part of the dry-stone wall remains and shows evidence of plaster and the location of a window.

In 1809 a new chapel was built, beside the road at the west end of Low Row, and the former building fell into disrepair.

Having originally tended to favour the Presbyterian position, the chapel declared itself Congregational in 1867, during the 50-year ministry of John Boyd.