Portraits of the past: Gadfield Elm Chapel

Wilford Woodruff's missionary efforts in the Herefordshire area of England led to the conversion of many members of a group of Bible followers known as the United Brethren. Two of the leaders of that group converted and baptized by Wilford Woodruff were Thomas Kington and John Benbow. By 1836, these two men had purchased land at Gadfield Elm for a place of worship for the United Brethren. By the following year, a chapel was built on that site and registered as a religious meetinghouse. Following the conversions of Kington, Benbow, and many others to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Bran Green and Gadfield Elm Conference of the church was organized at the Gadfield Elm Chapel on June 14, 1840. The chapel was given to the church at that time.

— Kenneth Mays