I already knew that St Anne's Chapel in Crossgill was built in 1751 (consecrated in 1755) as a chapel-of-ease of St. Paul's, Brookhouse, so was surprised to discover this isolated Free Church barely 700 m away.
The Rev. John Dodson, son of a Liverpool shipping family and vicar of Cockerham 1835-1849, then seceded from the Established Church in response to the Gorham Judgement*, and retired to his Littledale estate, where he had this chapel built. One can only speculate about the size of a congregation drawn by an independent preacher (who may also have been a significant local employer...) but though Dodson acted as minister for thirty years and died in 1890, his is the only grave (shared by his son) in the 'churchyard'.

I don't know when the chapel fell out of use – quite possibly 1890 – but though the stonework and roof seem well-maintained the door, windows and non-structural elements have been stripped out and the building is now merely an ornate barn.

*: A court case in which the Privy Council, a secular authority, overruled the Church on a question of spiritual dogma: an intrusion unacceptable to many clergymen.