Essex

…Street, close to the Castle, is the modern Castle Methodist Church, built on the site of the first Methodist chapel in Essex, opened by John Wesley in 1759. For a…

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Kent

…confused with the earlier St Augustine of Hippo), to lead a mission for the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. Augustine set out with forty monks, but halfway there…

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Derbyshire

…which demanded acceptance of the 1662 Prayer Book, Bagshawe was one of 2,000 ministers ejected from their parishes. More fortunate than most, he enjoyed a private income and retired to…

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Hampshire

…memorials. Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) was bishop for an astonishing forty-two years from 1827. He was a committed evangelical and his appointment showed that opposition by the Anglican hierarchy to…

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Norfolk

…him into exile in Holland. John Robinson (1576-1625) was for a time lecturer at St Andrew’s Church, before leaving to become pastor of an independent congregation. This later formed the…

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Sussex

…a Methodist Chapel of 1785 on the west side of the town. A plaque records that Wesley preached here in 1789 and again in 1790.     COOLHAM The Blue…

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Bristol

…the movement in 1739, with major extensions added in 1748.  The word “room” hardly does justice to the beauty and symmetry of the chapel, but at the time the Methodist…

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Cornwall

…eighteen times between 1762 and 1789, and a commemorative open-air service has been held annually since 1807. The chapel in front, known as Busveal Chapel, was built in 1836 and…

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Somerset

…and preached here on many occasions between 1743 and 1789. The Octagon Chapel, set back from the road in Middle Street, was opened by Wesley in 1776 and is now…

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