This unique Grade II* building dating from 1798 was on the Buildings at Risk Register.

Providence Chapel Listed Grade II* was purchased by the Providence Chapel Charlwood Trust with the aim of renovating and preserving this historic building for use by the community.

It was built in Horsham in c.1797 as a barracks and officers mess for troops assembled to repel an invasion by Napoleon, and has an interesting military history as the first home of the Green Jackets regiment. In 1815 it was purchased by a local farmer and moved by horse drawn wagon to be re-erected in Charlwood as a non-denominational, later Baptist, chapel.

Externally the chapel remains unchanged since first built in 1797 and, as Pevsner commented, could have come straight from the American mid-west. Internally the chapel remains much as in 1815, a simple non-conformist village chapel. Much of the original glass remains having been protected by wooden shutters.

Robert Bowles is an independent conservation accredited consulting structural engineer, dealing with structural issues relating to historic buildings and new construction in the context of historic buildings. He provides specialist conservation advice to other firms of Consulting Engineers, to individual building owners directly, and acts as an expert witness. He is a member of the CARE panel, which oversees the development of the National Register of Conservation Accredited Engineers.