Wesley Methodist Church is a
Methodist church located next to
Christ's Pieces in central
Cambridge, England. The church was founded in 1913 "to attract and retain, and not repel, the young Methodists who come to this
University", in the words of the then
President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference.
The church was built to replace an earlier
Wesleyan Methodist church on Hobson Street, built in 1849,
whose site was developed for the
County Hall of Cambridgeshire. It is named for
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...
, a founder of
Methodism.
The structure is characteristic of the
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style of architecture.
It was extensively refurbished in 1990 at a cost of £1.3 million.
An 1844
William Hill organ was installed in the 1990 refurbishment.
Wesley is one of thirteen churches in the Cambridge
Methodist Circuit, and one of two Methodist churches in the city of Cambridge, with the
other in
Castle Street.
The building is now a focus for various social activities; it is a working church with daily prayer and several Sunday
services each week. Cambridge Student Methodist Society (MethSoc), a student group, holds its weekly meetings in the church's "Upper Room".
The church has close links to other Methodist institutions in Cambridge, including
Wesley House
Wesley House was founded as a Methodist theological college (or seminary) in Jesus Lane, Cambridge, England. It opened in 1921 as a place for the education of Methodist ministers and today serves as a gateway to theological scholarship for stu ...
theological college, and
The Leys School.
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Methodist churches in Cambridge
20th-century churches in the United Kingdom
Churches completed in 1913
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