The chapelry, originally a chantry chapel, may thereafter have fallen (if not the chapel, then its revenues) into the hands of the Davenport family, who claimed that it had been their domestic chapel. By 1621 it seems to have been disused, as in 1621 it was described as 'an old dearn and deavly Chappel, so people call desert places out of company and resort'. However, in 1640 Adam Martindale was asked to become Minister there, and in July 1642 a marriage was recorded as taking place there. After the Restoration the chapel fell into the hands of nonconformist congregations. Thomas Norman, who subscribed in 1662, died in March 1667 and was recorded in the Stockport parish registers in godly terms as 'minister of the word of God at Chadkirke'. He was succeeded by the Independents John Jones (d. 1671) and his son Gamaliel. Gamaliel and his congregtaion were evidently turned out of the chapel in the early 18C and removed to a new chapel in 1706 (they may have decided to leave anyway for a new-built chapel anyway). The old chapel was left to decay, or rather evidently to decay further. In 1718 Gastrell described as 'now in a ruinous condition, no service having been performed there for 30 or 40 years past'. About 1745-6, 'the sum of £200 falling to the Chapel about the year 1746, it was proposed to Mr Stead, the then Rector of Stockport, either that £200 more should be raised, or to rebuild the Chapel, then ruinous; he chose the former, which was effected by the subscription of the neighbouring gentry, &c.' The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty added a further £200 (that £200 is recorded as by lot in 1745, the date taken here for separation). The whole £600 was laid aside in buying an estate in Chinley, near Chapel en le Frith (by 1778 yileding £25 per annum). In 1747 the Chapel was rebuilt by subscription. The small endowment of £5 per annum left in 1703 (presumably when the nonconformists left) to 'any orthodox preaching Minister at Chadkirk Chapel', which had never been paid by Gastrell's time, and perhaps not at all before 1747, was regularly paid thereafter. 'From this time there is an uninterrupted succession of Incumbents, who held this living often in conjunction either with that of Marple or with the Curacy of Stockport'. Further QAB grants in 1749, 1786 and 1815. Earwaker, East Cheshire, II, 80-2; Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 302; Hodgson, Augmentations, 247.