Inside Mayfair’s Grosvenor Chapel

Just under 300 years ago, a new church opened on land granted to four undertakers on a peppercorn rent, and it’s still there, standing proud in modern Mayfair.It was Sir Richard Grosvenor who agreed to lease a plot of land in his developing estate to a syndicate of four “undertakers” led by Benjamin Timbrell, a prosperous local builder.
The lease, for 99 years, was on a peppercorn rent.
Sir Richard laid the foundation stone on 7th April 1730, and the chapel opened almost exactl