West Street Chapel

The West Street chapel.

Coordinates: 51°30′47″N 0°7′42″W / 51.51306°N 0.12833°W / 51.51306; -0.12833

The West Street Chapel is a former chapel at 26 West Street, London WC2. ^[1]It was John Wesley’s first Methodist chapel in London’s West End.

History

The chapel was built for a Huguenot congregation who has previously worshipped in Newport Market. They took possession of the building in 1700 and continued to use the chapel until 1743, when John Wesley took out a lease on the building.^[2] On Trinity Sunday of that year Wesley recorded in his Journal

I began officiating at the chapel in West Street, near the Seven Dials, of which, by a strange chain of providences, we have a lease for seven years. I preached on the Gospel for the day, part of the third chapter of St John; and afterwards administered the Lord's supper to some hundreds of communicants. I was a little afraid at first that my strength would not suffice for the business of the day, when a service of five hours (for it lasted from ten to three) was added to my usual employment. But God looked to that.^[3]

He was often assisted at the chapel by George Whitfield, and John William Fletcher preached his first sermon there in 1751. ^[4]

From the beginning of the 19th century the chapel was used for Anglican worship. ^[5] It is no longer used as a church but Wesley's association with the building is commemorated by a plaque.^[1] Its pulpit, used by John and Charles Wesley between 1741 and 1793, is now in the nearby church of St Giles in the Fields.

References

1 2 "West Street (Methodist) Chapel". Methodist Heritage. Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
↑ Dibdin 1862, pp.1–4
↑ Dibdin 1862, p. 7
↑ Dibdin 1862, p. 10
↑ Dibdin 1862, p. 24

Sources

Dibdin, R. W. (1862). The History of West Street Episcopal Chapel, London. James Nisbet and Co.

External links

Media related to West Street Chapel at Wikimedia Commons

Churches in Westminster

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	Savoy Chapel St Anne's, Soho St Clement Danes St George's, Hanover Square St James's Church, Piccadilly St John the Evangelist, Westminster St. Margaret's, Westminster St Martin-in-the-Fields St Marylebone Parish Church St Mary le Strand St Paul's, Covent Garden Westminster Abbey

Anglican daughter churches	All Saints, Margaret Street All Souls, Langham Place Annunciation, Marble Arch Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks Henry VII Chapel Holy Trinity, Marylebone Holy Trinity, South Kensington Queen's Chapel, St James St Augustine's, Kilburn St Cyprian's, Marylebone St Gabriel's, Pimlico St James, Paddington St James the Less, Pimlico St John's Wood Church St Mary, Marylebone St Mary on Paddington Green St Matthew's, Bayswater St Matthew's, Westminster St Paul's, Knightsbridge St Peter, Vere Street St Peter's, Victoria St Saviour's, Pimlico

Other denominations	Church of our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Westminster Crown Court Church, Covent Garden Dormition Cathedral Enon Chapel French Protestant Church of London, Soho Immaculate Conception, Farm Street Notre Dame de France One Mayfair Church Regent Hall, Oxford Street Saint Charles Borromeo church St James's, Spanish Place St John's Wood Road Baptist Church St Patrick's, Soho St Sophia's Cathedral, Bayswater Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Mayfair Ulrika Eleonora West London Methodist Mission West Street Chapel, Westminster Westminster Cathedral Methodist Central Hall Westminster Chapel, Victoria

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