The Chapel of the Incarnation, located at the corner of Brandywine Road and Missouri Avenue, is a part of Saint Thomas' Episcopal Parish. The Chapel was built in 1916 to serve as a mission chapel for the 19th-century railroad village of Brandywine. It is an L- shaped church building in the Spanish Mission style, constructed of poured-in- form concrete covered with a course pebble-filled stucco to resemble adobe. The architect William J. Palmer designed this unique church. Bishop Harding consecrated the Chapel in October of 1923. It then also became the unofficial town hall of Brandywine. Many dances, crab feasts, and fundraising events have been held there over the years. The local kindergarten met there for a few years in the mid-1960s.

Unique to the Chapel is a Baptismal Font brought from Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Writhington Parish in England. The octagonal top is over five hundred years old while the base is older with characteristics of the Saxon era. The congregation of Writhlington Parish gave the font as a gift to St. Thomas' Parish in the early 1980s. This chapel is one of the few examples of this Spanish Mission style in Southern Maryland and is home to the offices of the Community Support Systems, a non-profit community assistance organization. It is a Prince George's County Historic Site and on the National Register of Historic Places.

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