Gastrell in the 1720s notes that: 'CHOLMLEY, challenged by Lord Cholmley to be his Domestick Chapell, and is supplied by his Chaplain. The Lord's Supper is administred here. People in the neighbourhood resort to it, but there is no endowment for a Curate. It is said to be built upon a Common, and not upon Ld. Cholmly's ground. Cholmley Chap[el] of Ease was sumptuously Repaired by Robert Ld. Cholmley, E[arl of Leinster, an[no] 1652.' Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 193. Date of original foundation unknown.