The present chapel was built in 1852, although rooms over the grocers shop of Mr Alfred Heap at Rings Row, Loveclough, at the end of 1825 or early 1826. The early meetings were conducted by Mr. John Halstead who was followed by Mr. D. Whittaker. It was in Mr. Whittaker's ministry that the cause increasd to the point where the Chapel was officially formed on the 14th August 1827. The Chapel continued to use these rooms until given notice to quit on the 26th April 1850. Faced with the choice of renting another room or building a chapel of their own it was decided to built a chapel on land opposite Middlegate Farm, but this deal fell through. When the notice to quit ran out they moved into a room over a blacksmiths shop at Rings Row.

In December 1851, at a meeting at Mr. James Riley's house in Loveclough, it was decided to build the present chapel. Mr Ramsbottom, a local land owner was approached and he allowed them to use the land at an agreed rent of one and half pence per yard per annum.

Building work commemced immediatley, with George and Richard Hudson and Robert Maden getting the stones and prepare the foundations. Three masons were engaged so that the building proceeded very rapidly and in August 1852 the chapel with a rising gallery and two cottages underneath was completed. The chapel was opened on the 22nd August 1852.

One of the cottages underneath the chapel was taken over for teaching and other purposes and in 1897 the other cottage, which had been occupied by the chapel keeper, was taken over to accomodate the increasing congregation. In 1883 the ground on which the chapel stands along with another plot of land to enlarge the burial ground was bought at a cost of £144.

Classrooms were added in 1889 at a cost of £154.2s.6d, and seven years later, on Good Friday 1896, the chapel re-opened after being re-pewed, underdrawn and beautified at a cost of £275. The number of seats is given as 200. At the latter end of 2002 the Church finally closed it's doors after the retirement of Ralph Johnson, who had been Pastor of the church for 44 years.

The building was sold in 2009 and has since been converted into two private dwellings

A SHORT SKETCH OF THE HUDSON FAMILY
(Founders of Rehoboth Church)
Extract from "Crawshawbooth and District" by Alderman Alfred Peel - published 1960

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ROBERT MADEN
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THIS CHAPEL
WHO DIED AUGUST 10th 1894. AGED 82 YEARS
HE WAS FOR 40 YEARS A DEACON. AND ALSO SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE SCHOOL CONNECTED WITH THIS CHAPEL
ALSO OF JOHN SUTCLIFFE
WHO DIED DECEMBER 18th 1904. AGED 72 YEARS
HE WAS FOR 24 YEARS A DEACON, AND FOR 10 YEARS
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOL CONNECTED WITH THIS
CHAPEL AND WAS ALSO A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL
MINISTERING IN THIS AND OTHER PLACES OF WORSHIP
FOR 22 YEARS.