The Act of Toleration allowed Protestant dissenters to worship in their own chapels for the first time in England.
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The congregation of the chapel settled on a design that made it as inconspicuous as possible and so that it resembled a private house or farm building as they feared that the rights given under the Act of Toleration might be revoked.
The chapel is still in use as a place of worship so those early fear have proved to be unfounded.