medal
- Museum number
- M.4960
- Description
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Bronze medal. (whole)
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Bust of John Wesley in ecclesiastical vestments, right. (obverse)
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Wesley preaching to a congregation beneath a tree. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 36.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
John Wesley (1703-91), evangelist and founder of Methodism opened a Methodist chapel at Bristol in 1739. In that same year he also bought a disused gun foundry in London and converted it into a Methodist chapel.
This medal commemorates the anniversary of his founding of the "United Society for Weekday Meetings". It is from the foundation of this society that the inception of Methodism is dated. Wesley died in 1791 and preached his last sermon on the 23rd February of that year.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Fiftieth year of Wesleyan Methodism, 1789
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.4960
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (78) (334)