Ote Hall Chapel

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon was born in 1707 and embraced the ideas of the then newly emerging Methodist movement. In the 1740s, she became influenced by the Calvinistic doctrines espoused by George Whitefield, who became her personal chaplain, and in the 1760s she founded a series of chapels, the first of which was in the grounds of the house in Brighton where she was living at the time. The Connexion which bears her name was formally established in 1783 and remains, Evangelical and "rigidly Calvinistic". In 1763 the Countess moved a few miles north of Brighton to the village of Wivelsfield, where she took on the lease of Great Ote Hall, a small country house with 16th-century…

Ote Hall Chapel has been described as resembling "a small box". below it is a cornice supported on modillions. A manse, built around the same time as the chapel, originally adjoined at the south end, but in 1956 it was demolished and replaced with the present church hall.