User:Ohsimone/Brook Street Chapel

Brook Street Chapel is a church building in Tottenham, London, built in 1839.

The building was constructed to house an Open Brethren assembly in Tottenham, founded by John Eliot Howard and others who seceded from the Quakers in 1838. The building was partly financed by the chemist Luke Howard, the "namer of clouds" remembered with a blue plaque at 7, Bruce Grove, Tottenham.

The chapel was associated with missionaries such as Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission, Taylor first visiting in 1851. As well as John Eliot and Robert Howard, noted quinologists, the assembly was also home to the writer Edmund Gosse who was a Sunday School superintendent at the Chapel, and was the marriage place of his father Philip Gosse and mother Emily Bowes. The buliding contains the 'Tottenham Memorandum', which states the assembly's position with regards to the schism among Plymouth Brethren assemblies in the late 1840's.