Founded in 1875 by two prominent residents of the town at a time when Protestant Nonconformism was well established in Sussex, the chapel continued in religious use for over a century until it was sold for conversion to a family home in 1999.

[1][2] The line and Burgess Hill railway station opened in 1841, and rapid population growth led to the building of an Anglican church, St John the Evangelist's, in the early 1860s and the creation of an ecclesiastical parish in 1863.

[4] In 1875, together with fellow resident Eli Ashdown, he formed a trust to fund the establishment of a Strict Baptist place of worship in the town.

[11] Simeon Norman's chapel continued to serve the Strict Baptist community throughout the 20th century,[7] but attendances gradually fell.

[9][11][12] The Providence Strict Baptist Chapel was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 27 November 1975;[13] this defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest".