Rehoboth Chapel, Pell Green

Pell Green, one of several tiny settlements in Wadhurst's parish, is about 0.75 mi northeast of the town. In common with many places in Sussex, a county known for its broad range of Christian denominations, a Strict Baptist community developed in the early 19th century. Their first meetings in Pell Green were held in 1818. Six years later, Thomas Kemp founded and built a new chapel immediately to the west of an existing cottage to serve the community. It was successful enough to require regular extensions in its early years; work was carried out in 1828, 1831 and 1841. The original three-bay east–west layout gained a fourth bay to the west, and a lean-to was subsequently attached to this.…

The chapel is a weatherboarded single-storey building with timber-framed walls and a slate-tiled roof with eaves. The construction date of 1824 is visible on a stone on the exterior. The three original bays have, from east to west, a large round-arched window, a doorway with a straight hood mould, and another window in the same style. The westernmost bay has an identical window and a small door, again flat-hooded. The windows are sashes and originally had wooden shutters. The building was mostly of timber construction inside. A three-sided gallery was held up by wooden columns with decorative mouldings at the top and bottom, and three king posts supported the roof (two in the original part…