In 1818, the West Riding Home Missionary Society were meeting and preaching in houses across Ripon and with growing congregations, the society decided to commission the building of a new church. Starting in May 1818 with the laying of the foundation stone, the 'Temple as the new building would come to be known opened in the September of the same year with the capacity or 420 people. By 1871, the congregation had outgrown the chapel and a moved to a significant new building with a grand spire on North Street. This new building would become a chicken factory in 1953 and was demolished in 1968. 

The original site of the Temple at the top of Allhallowgate quickly became derelict following the congregation moving to North Street and the original Temple being demolished in 1871.  A 1919 article written by a correspondant for the Ripon Gazette outlined the dire state that the site of the temple had become and in 1932, the site was cleared by a group of unemployed men. British Telecom constructed their building on part of the site in the 1960's and in 1973 an application to extend onto the site of the formed temple and now known as the  Dissenter's Graveyard was refused. As part of Ripon's celebrations of 1100 years since the granting of a charter to the city in 886 by King Alfred, the graveyard was again tidied and redesigned as a community garden which was subsequently renamed as the Temple Gardens. Ripon in Bloom now tend for the gardens.