There the "strange [and] quaint" structure was re-erected in a field on a dirt track north of the village, and on 15 November 1816 it opened as an Independent Calvinistic chapel for Flint and his fellow worshippers.

[6] Smith regularly preached in the village of Horley, 2 miles (3.2 km) away,[4] and in 1846 a Strict Baptist chapel was built there with assistance from the Charlwood cause.

[2] It was offered on a freehold basis at a guide price of £49,500, and was advertised as "in need of repair and improvement" and as being on the national Heritage at Risk Register.

Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner called it "a startling building to find in Surrey, or even in England", and claimed that "it would not be out of place in the remotest part of East Kentucky".

[1] Strict Baptist historian Ralph Chambers likened it to "a pioneer's shack from some faraway backwood of Canada",[4] while English Heritage state that it appears "more typical of New England than Surrey".

[5] Its importance is enhanced by its status as a "rare survival" from Napoleonic-era England, and it is considered the most unusual of the many 19th-century Nonconformist chapels across Surrey.

The hipped roof has a brick chimney-stack, is tiled with slate and extends over the front of the building as a seven-bay veranda with wooden pillars.

[3][5] The internal floor area is 1,354 square feet (125.8 m2), and the chapel occupies a 0.17-acre (0.069 ha) plot of land which includes a graveyard.

[19] In 2019 the National Lottery Heritage Fund provided a grant of £260,000 for the restoration of the chapel; work included structural repairs to the roof, weatherboarded walls and timber framing.