Initially from 1783, the congregation was based in the Methodist Tabernacle, but they built a new chapel in 1799.

In 1846, three friends established a new congregation in Sherwood, and this later developed to form Carrington Baptist Church, Nottingham.

A young minister named Catton was engaged for a trial period.

This schisms was caused by the question of whether a deacon, a butcher by trade, who had been guilty of using unequal weights, should be suspended.

The chapel was converted into buildings for St Mary’s School by the architect Thomas Chambers Hine.