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Porlock, the 1837 chapel
12/06/2019
The 1837 Wesleyan chapel in Porlock is now a restaurant. In 1873 it could seat 250 Grid reference SS888468
Porlock Wesleyan Methodist chapel
12/06/2019
In 1926, the Porlock Wesleyans moved across the village to this new building, designed by Mr. Tamlyn of Minehead, which ...
Williton, Tower Hill Wesleyan Methodist chapel
12/06/2019
The earliest Wesleyan chapel in Williton was built in 1810. The complex of church, vestry, and hall on Tower Hill ...
Milborne Port, Somerset
12/06/2019
The building illustrated was designed by Alexander Lauder of Barnstaple in 1866. The building is still in use. At the time ...
Shepshed Hall Croft/Field Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leicestershire
10/06/2019
Before 1875 there are references to Wesleyan Chapels in Hall Croft (1851) and Field Street (1860). Given that their seating ...
Loughborough, Ashby Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leicestershire
10/06/2019
Ashby Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1899. The configuration of the site suggests it was intended to conform ...
Holcot Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Northamptonshire
10/06/2019
Holcot Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1814. In 1851 it provided 58 free and 200 other sittings. By 1873 ...
Brixworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Northamptonshire
10/06/2019
Brixworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built by Thomas Holt in 1811. In 1851 the chapel provided 253 free and 153 ...
Our (Primitive Methodist) Conference Chapel - City Road, London
02/06/2019
Transcription of Article published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine by Rev. Albert A. Birchenough BY the courtesy of the Rev. Dinsdale ...
Rev. Dinsdale T. Young
02/06/2019
A Sunday Evening at Wesley’s Chapel Transcription of Article published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine by A.R.O.I. THE fact that the Conference ...
William Palmer 1757-1819, one of Mr Wesley's preachers
31/05/2019
William Palmer was commissioned as one of John Wesley’s travelling preachers in 1783. His home was Acle, Norfolk and his ...
William Lorkin, Methodist historian
31/05/2019
William Lorkin died in Norwich on 13 January 1837. In reporting his death, the newspaper, the Norwich Mercury, reminded its readers ...
Thomas Clark of St Ives
31/05/2019
My 3rd Great Grandfather, Master Mariner of St Ives, Cornwall (1741-1829) was a friend of John Wesley who stayed with ...
Thomas Capiter of Grimsby c1714-1772
31/05/2019
Thomas Capiter was by all accounts one of the founding fathers of Methodism in Grimsby. He was born around 1714 ...
Mrs Fletcher of Madeley
31/05/2019
Transcription of Sketch in the Christian Messenger by Rev. Albert A. Birchenough By a strange coincidence, Mary Bosanquet, the devoted wife ...
John Bennett, John Wesleys 'rival'
31/05/2019
Transcription of Sketch in the Primitive Methodist Magazine by Fenton Allen Mr. John Bennett, the rival of John Wesley, and who ...
Hannah Bowman
31/05/2019
Hannah was born around 1740 and we are told that, as a young woman, she committed herself and her cause ...
Hannah Ball, friend of John Wesley and founder of the first Sunday School
31/05/2019
Daughter of a farmer, Hannah was born on 13 March 1733 (or 1734 by the new calendar) and spent most ...
Charles Wesley
29/05/2019
1708 – December 18 – Charles was born at Epworth Rectory in Lincolnshire, the 18th child of the Rector, Rev ...
Memories of my Grandmother
23/05/2019
This is my Grandma who was Edith Walton a Long Compton Methodist who gave a guinea. She was a wonderful Christian all ...
Poole, High Street chapel
22/05/2019
The original Wesleyan chapel in Poole was built in Chapel Lane in 1793 at the expense of Robert Carr Brackenbury. ...
Sherborne Wesleyan Sunday School
22/05/2019
The building illustrated was designed by Alexander Lauder of Barnstaple, and was built as the Sunday School for Cheap Street ...
Lychett Minster Wesleyan chapel, Dorset
22/05/2019
This building was the Wesleyan chapel on Wareham Road, Lychett Minster. Built to seat 204, at the time of the 1940 ...
Morthoe Wesleyan chapel
22/05/2019
The building illustrated, in the Ilfracombe Circuit, was designed by W.H. Gould of Ilfracombe. Grid Ref: SS455452 Reference: The twenty-fourth annual report ...