Said to have been built in 1692 by Isaac Honeywood who lived in the adjoining mansion, the Red Lion Hill meeting house was first replaced in 1736 and then, having become unsafe, rebuilt in brick on roughly the same site in 1828.
It holds four John Flaxman reliefs and plaques to previous congregants, such as Helen Allingham (the first woman artist admitted to the Royal Academy).
Its stone arches and pointed ceiling vault give it an excellent acoustic, making it a popular recording venue.
[5] Among the prominent residents of Hampstead who occasionally attended the Chapel in the years immediately after it was built in 1862 was the novelist George Eliot.
[6] Politicians who were worshippers included John Wood (1789–1856), a trustee of the chapel, who was a Whig MP for Preston (1826–32) and a strong supporter of the Great Reform Act 1832,[7] and William Lawrence (1818-1897), Lord Mayor of London (1863/4) and twice Liberal MP for the City of London (1865–74, 1880–85).