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 origins. In 1778 she started holding services there in a room which was converted into a chapel, and two years later she arranged for a purpose-built chapel to be constructed on a site about to the northeast. A manse was built on the south side around the same time. A Sunday school was started at the chapel in 1887.
