Brookwood was well known locally for two things: its cemetery and its mental hospital. The hospital, orginally known as the County Asylum when opened in 1867 was very self contained, even having its own sewage works, gasworks as well as this chapel, such was the attitude towards its patients in those times. Today, we care for many such people in the community and the hospital has now given way to much housing development. The local council wanted to retain the chapel building for alternative use, but for now the building waits patiently with its scars to see what the future holds.