The chapel was a large church building designed in 1840-41 by William Hosking FSA, and built by John Jay. With its large, elegant frontage - a combination of Grecian and Italian Renaissance styles - directly facing the main road, the grand building came to dominate its streetscene at a time when chapel architecture in the East London was generally low-key.
The area would likely look pretty much the same if it weren't right next to the heavily bombed docklands, and pretty much the entire area was flattened by bombing raids.
Built as Trinity Congregational Church, 1949-1951, by Cecil Handisyde and D Rogers, its design was so striking that it was featured in the Exhibition of Live Architecture for the Festival of Britain in 1951.
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