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Wesley Memorial Church is a [[Methodism|Methodist church]] in central [[Oxford]] which traces its heritage to the first Methodist meeting house

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in the town where [[John Wesley|John]] and [[Charles Wesley]] studied.

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| caption = East front of the church, showing the steeple

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==The building==

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The church occupies a building in [[New Inn Hall Street]] opposite the site of the first Methodist Meeting House in Oxford.

That| Meetinglocation House was in the building now numbered 32-34 = [[New Inn Hall Street]], which is part of <br>[[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose College]].

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A plaque on the wall commemorates the fact that John Wesley preached there on 4 July 1783.

A subsequent building on the other side of the street has since been demolished by [[St Peter's College, Oxford|St Peter's College]].▼

| denomination = [[Methodist Church of Great Britain]]

The present [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] building was erected in 1877.

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| circuit = [http://www.oxfordmethodists.org.uk/ Oxford]

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'''Wesley Memorial Church''' is a [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Methodist church]] in central [[Oxford]], [[England]]. [[John Wesley|John]] and [[Charles Wesley]] studied in Oxford, and the congregation was founded in 1783.{{sfn|Hibbert|1988|p=495}} The present church building was completed in 1878.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=299}} The building is now a focus for various social activities as well as [[Christian worship]].

==History==

Oxford's first Methodist [[meeting house]] was a building on the east side of [[New Inn Hall Street]]. It is now numbered 32–34 and is part of [[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose College]]. A plaque on the wall commemorates the fact that John Wesley preached there on 4 July 1783.

▲AThe subsequentcongregation later moved to a second building on the otherwest side of the street. This has since been demolishedsold and the site has been incorporated byinto [[St Peter's College, Oxford|St Peter's College]].

The present [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] building was started in 1877 and opened in October 1878.{{sfn|Hibbert|1988|p=495}} The architect [[Charles Bell (British architect)|Charles Bell]] designed it in a revival of [[English Gothic architecture#Decorated Gothic|Decorated Gothic]].{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=299}} The building contractor was Joshua Symm. [[Henry Frith]] of [[Gloucester]] carved the capitals of the columns, which portray twelve different kinds of English plants.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.wesleymem.org.uk/wmhistory.shtml |title=A history of Wesley Memorial |publisher=Wesley Memorial Church |location=Oxford |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref>

==Gallery==

<gallery>

File:NewInnHallSt WesleyMemorialChurch Night.JPG|The east front by night, showing the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] tracery of the east window

File:Tower of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Oxford - geograph.org.uk - 1705860.jpg|Church tower, pictured from [[St Michael's Street, Oxford|St Michael's Street]]

</gallery>

==References==

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==Sources==

*{{cite book |editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert |year=1988 |title=[[The Encyclopaedia of Oxford]] |chapter=Wesley Memorial Methodist Church |location=London |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |isbn=0-333-39917-X |page=495 }}

*{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |title=Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0 14 071045 0 }}

==External links==

* [http://www.wesleymem.org.uk/ Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford]

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