The current chapel was erected in 1882-3 by the local builder, W. Blackburn, replacing an earlier chapel. The first Bible Christian chapel on this site was opened on 13 December 1849, possibly in connection with the contemporary `cholera revival? in south-east Wales. The congregation had previously met in a room over a stable in King Street for several years. The 1849 chapel was built of stone with a school room, as well as other rooms, in the basement below the chapel which sat approximately 250 people. However, by the 1880s the structure was found to be dangerously structurally unsound, the walls beginning to give way, and was replaced by the current building. The memorial foundation stone was laid on 23 October 1882 by Mary Carbutt, wife of Edward Carbutt, MP for Monmouth. A bottle containing documents and the names of the trustees was placed under the stone. The new chapel was opened on 19 June 1883. The cost of the build was £1,500. The new chapel was designed to sit 550 people ? 285 on the ground floor and 255 in the gallery. The ornamental woodwork fittings, including pulpit, balcony panelling, and carved pillars under the balcony, were constructed of stained and varnished pine. The chapel has been renovated and the nineteenth-century pulpit removed. There is a full immersion baptismal font. In addition to the chapel, there were two vestries on the ground floor. Below the chapel was a large school room which could be extended by the removal of the temporary partitions which separated it from two additional small classrooms. There was also a boiler and warming chambers in the lower floor. Externally, the church is built of uncoursed Pennant sandstone and dressed with poor-quality Bath stone. The front of the church is Lombardian in style, with a central bay with pediment. The chapel entrance is reached by a staircase from the street and consists of a triple doorway with semi-circular arched windows above each door, set within semi-circular arches supported by slender pillars topped with stiff-leaf capitals, all within the central bay. There are semi-circular arched windows on either side of the doors. There is an upper course of four semi-circular arched windows. Over the two central upper windows, within the central bay, is a roundel with nine circular lights of the same size ? eight in a circle with one in the centre.

(Sources: Bible Christian Magazine, 3: xv (1850), 79-80; Bible Christian Magazine, 5: xix (1883), 32-35; Newman, Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London: 2000), p. 434; Welsh Newspapers Online: The Principality, 21.12.1849; Monmouthshire Merlin, 22.12.1849; South Wales Daily News, 24.10.1882 and 22.6.1883. Several sources provided by Jim Bowen)

A.N. Coward, RCAHMW 20.04.2018