The congregation was founded in 1861 and they met in a carpenter's shop on High Street, Long Eaton.

Numbers grew rapidly and a new site was acquired on Station Road.

The foundation stone for the new building was laid by R. Birkin, one of the Directors of the Midland Railway in May 1864[1] and the first chapel erected at a cost of £350 (equivalent to £40,000 in 2023).

[3] It was erected by the contractors Coxon and Rice to the designs of the architect Mr. Keating of Nottingham.

A new Sunday School with a frontage of 40 feet (12 m) on Station Road was built at a cost of £2,200 (equivalent to £290,000 in 2023)[2] was opened on the adjacent site on 23 June 1908.