GC21585 Church Micro 874...East Molesey Wesleyan Chapel (Traditional Cache) in South East England, United Kingdom created by Ragged Robin

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Hidden : 3/14/2012

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East Molesey Wesleyan Chapel

Picture if you can a spring day in 1877, just one hundred and thirty-five years ago. It is May the 21st - Whit Monday. But spring in that year had not lived up to its usual expectations. On the day before - Whit Sunday - the rain poured unceasingly all day long, and earlier in the year the Thames Valley had been inundated by one of the most disastrous floods of the century. When the people of Molesey awoke on this Whit Monday the rain had stopped, but although it was dry it remained dull and overcast and a fresh wind was blowing . However neither clouds, nor wind, nor threat of rain, could dampen the hearts of Molesey’s Wesleyan members, for on that day their own chapel, the chapel they had striven for some thirty years to attain, was to be opened. The Victorian era was, of course, the heyday of evangelical oratory, and the Wesleyan Church had always been noted for the eloquence and sincerity of its preachers, and it had been announced that one of the most eminent of these - the Rev. Alexander McAuley, the president of the Wesleyan Conference - had agreed to come and deliver the first sermon in the new chapel. Mr. McAuley had the reputation of being "a godly and earnest man, powerful and successful as a preacher, generous and hospitable", and as the opening had been advertised in the national Methodist press, a goodly crowd was expected. Since the palmy days of Queen Victoria’s reign Wesleyanism has seen and survived many changes, including an alteration of name arising from the merger of a number of divisions in 1932 to form the Methodist Union. Locally the most important change was the modernising and extension of the buildings during 1969/70. The school hall was adapted by the removal of the old small classrooms, so much admired in the different conditions of 1885, turning the central hall into a much more spacious auditorium; and by the erection of a stage and dressing rooms, and the provision of a kitchen and servery. This was opened by Mrs. Harold Moss in May 1970 [53], when it was announced that in future it would be known as "The Moss Hall" in recognition of her late husband’s work for the cause and the close connection of his family with the movement going back to 1853 when Mr. David Moss first came to live in Molesey and joined the local society. In the grounds between the chapel and Tor House there was raised a brand new community hall, in place of a wooden hut put up in the 1930s, and a car park was laid. At the same time the porch arches of the chapel were closed in by the erection of wooden doors to form an entrance vestibule. It is interesting to ponder that in the last century all of the buildings - the temporary chapel, the permanent chapel, and the Sunday school - were all constructed for a little over £3,000; in 1970 the additions and adaptations alone ran to something like £17,000. Still the main thing is that in both centuries there were people who were willing to work to raise the money, and people willing to give it.

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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