Wesley's Chapel and John Wesley House

Wesley's Chapel

John Wesley along with his brother Charles were the leaders of the Methodist movement in the late 1700s that gave rise to the formation of the Methodist church.  Anyone who's grown up in the Methodist church, as we have, knows the Wesley name.  Along City Road in London is Wesley's Chapel, the church he built in London in the late 1770s along with a Georgian-style house that Wesley spent his final years until his death in 1791.  This house continued to serve as the parsonage for the minister of this church until a new one was built on the grounds in the late 1800s.

Wesley's Chapel remains an active congregation of the Methodist Church with services every Sunday.  In the crypt of the church is the Museum of Methodism outlining Methodist history, with a lot of Wesley artifacts including the pulpit he preached from prior to the opening of Wesley's Chapel.  Margaret Thatcher was married in this church and both of her children were baptized here.  In 1993, she donated the communion rail that is still in use today.