Chapel Place, N1

Chapel Place lies off the north side of Chapel Market towards Liverpool Road.

A clue to the originally intended site of a Pentonville chapel may lie in the naming of Chapel Place. A large plot at the top of Chapel Place, extending to Sermon Lane (now subsumed in Tolpuddle Street) was perhaps the place, but around 1795 a row of cottages called Mount Sion was built instead.

Chapel Place was first built up with a dozen houses in 1792–4,

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