walking www.methodistheritage.org.uk central path. marble gravestone isto the left ofthe Susanna, died on30July 1742. Her white Wesley’s grave – Burial Ground, with Susanna 15. Bunhill Fields (Nonconformist) education space. Symphony Orchestra rehearsal,concert and here. Today the building isaLondon Foundery Society, who took communion this church’s parishincluded John Wesley’s now LSO St Luke’s 14. St Luke’s Parish Church – tours, For andcosts of detailsofworshipservices cloisters. (School relocated to Surrey in 1872.) 1714–20. Commemorative plaque inthe was educatedatTheCharterhouseSchool – Charterhouse 13*. The debarred from otherLondonchurches. who continued topreach here long afterhehadbeen The lastAnglican pulpitmade available to John Wesley, 12. St Bartholomew theGreat Parish Church – with memorabiliaconnected John Wesley. Modern London’, including ‘Expanding City: 1666–1850s’ prehistoric timestothepresent withnew ‘Galleries of 11*. Museum ofLondon– outside entrance to the Museum of London.) (Located onthehighwalkway, directly when hisheartwas‘strangely warmed’. featuring textfrom hisjournaldescribing evangelical conversion on24May 1738, in 1981 tocommemorateJohn Wesley’s Modern bronze ‘flame’ sculpture erected Memorial – 10. John Wesley’s Conversion Place 10pm on24May 1738. converted on21May 1738andJohn declared ‘I believe’ at John andCharles Wesley lodged 1738–9,where Charles was 9. Site of John Bray’s House – Wesleys’ evangelical conversions. and plaque onrailingscommemorates of John Wesley field-preaching in Moorfields Samuel, wascuratehere for ayear. Window Parish Church – 8. St Botolph’s-without-Aldersgate visit:
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Also to explore in Wesley’s London 16. Samuel Annesley’s House – (plaque 22*. National Portrait Gallery – and outside only) – 7 Spital Yard, off Spital St Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE Normally has Main walking map area – see overleaf Square, E1 6AQ 17thC home of Samuel Annesley, on display 1766 portrait of John Wesley by John Wesley’s maternal grandfather; John’s Nathaniel Hone. mother, Susanna Wesley, born here in 1669. Euston Square 23. St Giles-in-the-Fields Parish Old Street – plaque – 60 St Giles High Street, WC2H 14 2 17. Site of Fetter Lane WarrenChapel Street Church opposite John Wilkes’ Statue) – Fetter Lane, 8LG John Wesley is believed to have preached 1 3 Great Portland Street EC4ARegents 1BX Moravians Park used Fetter Lane from 1740. occasionally at Evening Prayer. See also here 15 Baker Street pulpit from formerRussell West square Street Chapel [see 24]. 18. Charles Wesley Memorial – 20 18 (in memorial garden on site of Old St 24. West Street (Methodist) Chapel – Marylebone Ch graveyard). Marylebone (outside only) – 26 West Street, WC2H 9NA 13 4 High St, W1U 5HR CharlesGoodge Wesley Street asked to Commemorative plaque indicates this was Farringdon be buried here as a member of the Church John Wesley’s first West End Methodist chapel; Barbican 16 of England. Charles and John remained leased from the Huguenots 1743–91. Anglican priests throughout their lives. 12 11 5 25*. Westminster Abbey – Parliament Sq, Chancery Lane 10 Moorgate 19 19. Hinde Street Methodist Church – SW1P 3PA Memorial to Wesleys (on south choir Holborn 9 Liverpool Street Thayer Street, W1U 2JQ. The original (previous) aisle wall). Charles Wesley was educated 8 chapel here was built in 1810.Tottenham Charles CourtWesley’s Road at Westminster School (adjacent), where his widow, son and daughter were ‘class members’. eldest brother, Samuel, taught. Oxford Circus 20. Methodist Church House – 26.23 Fetter Lane Moravian Church – 17 St Paul’s 25 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5JR Formerly Moravian Close, 381 Kings Road, Chelsea SW10 City Thameslink Bond Street 7 6 ‘Mission House’, headquarters of the 0LP Congregation24 with whom the Wesleys Bank Methodist Missionary Society. worshipped re-established in the 1960s at this chapel. Notable Moravians interred in burial Mansion House 21*. Methodist Central Hall, Black friars ground, ‘God’s Acre’, include Peter Böhler. Cannon Street Westminster Storey’s– Gate, SW1H 9NH.Leicester Square Temple 26 Built to mark centenary of John Wesley’s death. (10 mins walk Piccadilly Circus from Sloane Sq or South Kensington tube stations) 21, 22 & 25 23 & 24 Charing Cross (Nr Westminster and St James’s Park tube stations) (Nr Tottenham Court Road tube station)
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15 sites in central London associated with John Wesley’s family life and ministry walking Wesley’s way in theLever St eighteenth century: all within walking distance of Wesley’sA5201 Chapel, City Road. Skinner St B144 Bath St Old St 1*. Wesley’s Chapel and Leysian Mission, John Old Street A5202 Wesley’s house and tomb, and the Museum Goswell Rd – Built by John Wesley in 1778 close to Old St of Methodism ‘The City’ of London to replace the Foundery chapel [see 3]. 14. LSO St Luke’s A5201 A501 2. Site of Whitefield’s St John St Tabernacle Today, Wesley’s Chapel has a thriving, multicultural congregation and is united with the Leysian Mission, formerly an independent local Methodist Mission.49 City Road, London EC1Y 1AU Farringdon Rd 3. Site of the Foundery T: 020 7253 2262 E: [email protected] Old St 1. Wesley’s Chapel, John Wesley's first W: www.wesleyschapel.org.uk John Wesley’s house & The Museum of Methodism London chapel Walk starts here 1 15. Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Route approximately 2 /2 hours without stops and visits to attractions. Susanna Wesley’s grave Rosebery Ave * = major tourist attractions where you could spend several hours admiring the architecture and exploring the exhibits! City Rd A201
Goswell Rd Walking from Wesley’s Chapel… Clerkenwell Rd A5201 Farringdon Rd 2. Site of Whitefield’s Tabernacle – A5201 A501 John Wesley admired George Whitefield, who first invited Wesley to preach outdoors, Bunhill Row but strongly disagreed with his Calvinism. 13. The Charterhouse In 1741, Whitefield’s supporters built a B100 Theobald’s Rd Chiswell St 4. Finsbury Square wooden tabernacle on corner of present Beech St Moorfields preaching ground Leonard and Tabernacle Sts. Farringdon Plaque located on wall of John Aldersgate St 3. Site of the Foundery – Hatton Garden Carthusian St Wesley’sSamuel first ‘bookroom’, Annesley's in present House Tabernacle St, indicates site opposite (between Worship St and Bonhill St) of the disused
Gray’s Inn Rd cannon factory that became John Wesley’s first London base (1739–1778). (Pulpit and some pews relocated to Wesley’s Chapel.) Long Ln Charterhouse St A501 12. St Bartholomew 4. Finsbury Square – John and Charles the Great Parish Church 5. St Giles-without-Cripplegate Wesley, George Whitefield and others Parish Church preached here and in the ‘Moorfields’ area. Moorgate Wesley organised meetings and visited Chancery Lane 11. Museum of London W Smithfield converts; thus began the Methodist Society High Holborn 10. The Aldersgate Flame Memorial Holborn Viaduct in England. A1211 London Wall St Andrew St 9. Site of Liverpool Street 5. St Giles-without-Cripplegate ParishChurch – John Bray's House Samuel Annesley, John Wesley’s maternal grandfather, was expelled 8. St Botolph’s-without-Aldersgate from this church for nonconformity in 1662. (Can also be viewed A1 Parish Church from the high walkway east of the Aldersgate Memorial [see 10].) A1211 6. Threadneedle Street – John Wesley married Molly Vazeille, a widow, in 1751. Shortly before, he fell and badly sprained A1 New Fetter Ln Newgate St his foot. He was carried to the Vazeille’s home here and spent a week convalescing, nursed by Molly.
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Chancery Ln Bishopsgate 7*. St Paul’s Cathedral & Churchyard – John Wesley St Paul’s worshipped in the chancel on 24–26 May 1738. Fetter Lane On the afternoon of his Aldersgate experience, he heard the anthem, ‘Out of the deep have Street I cried unto Thee’. Statue of John Wesley City Thameslink Cheapside Fleet St 7. St Paul’s Cathedral erected in 1988 in the churchyard: bronze & Churchyard cast of Manning’s 19thC statue to be found Strand 6. Threadneedle at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster Bank [see 21, overleaf].