Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford
Wesley Memorial Church is a Methodist church in central Oxford, England. John and Charles Wesley studied in Oxford, and the congregation was founded in 1783. The present church building was completed in 1878. 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. A plaque on the wall commemorates the fact that John Wesley preached there on 4 July 1783.New Inn Hall Street Chapel 1818–1878
In 1815 Oxford Methodists started to plan and raise funds and support for a chapel to be built in the centre of Oxford. A plot on New Inn Hall Street was purchased from Daniel Harris in 1817, and the chapel, designed by William Jenkins, was opened on 19 February 1818.The society later moved to the current building, constructed in front of the chapel, when it was opened in 1878, although the chapel continued in use as a teaching space until it was sold to St Peter's College in the 1930s. The building was demolished in 1969.