Trinity Independent Chapel

Trinity Independent Chapel
Trinity Chapel 1841-1944
Location	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Charismatic Baptist, earlier Methodist and Congregationalist
Architecture
Architect(s)	William Hosking and John Jay

Coordinates: 51°30′41″N 0°1′8″W / 51.51139°N 0.01889°W / 51.51139; -0.01889

The Trinity Independent Chapel (also known as the Congregational or Methodist chapel) was an architecturally significant early Victorian church in the East End of London. It was destroyed in the bombing during World War II, and re-built in Modernist style afterwards. In the late 1990s the building was sold to the Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church, and since then has served as their Prayer Temple and international headquarters.

The Trinity Independent Chapel was designed in 1840-41 by William Hosking FSA, and built by John Jay. It occupied a site at the corner of East India Dock Road and Augusta Street (Annabel Close) in Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near the East India Docks. With its large, elegant frontage—a combination of Grecian and Italian Renaissance styles—directly facing the main road, this lavish building came to dominate its streetscene at a time when chapel architecture in the East End of London was generally low-key.