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Week St.
Mary
NORTH CORNWALL, UK
50° 45'03.84"N
4° 30'01.39"W
Elevation: 142m OS: SX237977
CALOR VILLAGE OF THE YEAR
County Winner
2009
| Methodist Chapel |
Click
HERE to view the Week St. Mary Methodist
Circuit Activity Exchange web site.....
The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel at Week Orchard (built
pre-1800), and the United Methodist Free Church had a chapel in
the Churchtown built in 1844.
The Bible Christians built the current Zion chapel within the
village in 1843, and another at Bakesdon in 1833.
William O'Bryan, born in 1778, who met John Wesley as a boy,
felt led to become a preacher but experienced conflict with
chapel leaders which led to his itinerent evangelist career. As
an independent preacher he conducted what proved to be the first
service of a new Methodist denomination - "Bible Christians" -
at Week St. Mary on 1st October 1815. |
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He linked with 22 friends
and formed a society on 9th October 1815. An Annual Conference
was established, a pattern of circuits evolved and in 1831 the
Week St. Mary Circuit came into being.
The year 1907 saw the demise of the title
"Bible Christian Society" when it combined with the "United
Methodist Free Church" and the "Methodist New Connexion" to form
"The United Methodist Church". This union and the later on in
1932, when "United Methodists", "Weslyans" and "Primitive
Methodists" formed "The Methodist Church" produced little real
change.
At Week St. Mary the two chapels (Week St. Mary Bible Christian
and Week Green United Methodist Free Church) continued their
respective societies following the 1907 and 1932 amalgamations
until 1934 when the Week Green chapel was closed and the
premises converted for use as a caretaker's bungalow. |
| (Acknowledgement: Week St.
Mary Circuit Centenary by Wilfred Cocks) |
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