Sharing stories from the birthplace of the Methodist movement. https://xitter.cf/t.co/07oijpPtsV

Oxford, England
Joined January 2018
Local to preacher arriving to take a service: "Don't bother, your chapel has blown down." Fortunately it hadn't & he didn't (not bother that is). Great new page on the history of the Methodist chapels at Lower Heyford #Oxfordshire tinyurl.com/5frudy5h
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His parents couldn’t afford to pay for music lessons. His sisters worried their house would be burned down by suffragettes. The fascinating life story of George Langford, organist and Methodist local preacher: wesleysoxford.org.uk/people/…
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Items brought forward in a Litany of Thanksgiving at the final service at Cowley Road @MethodistGB Church #Oxford this afternoon and also something to take away: hymn numbers with hymns on the reverse. What a brilliant idea!
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Great visitor numbers @OxfordWesley for @OxRideStride and #OxfordOpenDoors. Lovely music too
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Plenty of early bird visitors already @OxfordWesley getting a chance to hear the organ
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Want to explore 300 years of @MethodistGB history in #Oxford? @OxfordWesley will be open tomorrow for @OxfordPresTrust #OpenDoors! 📸: A model of Wesley Memorial Church
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Watch the 👀 this #OxfordOpenDoors as you explore Oxford Methodism past and present in the new atrium at Wesley Memorial Church. Open all day Saturday, New Inn Hall Street
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Wesley Memorial Church will be open for @OxRideStride and #OxfordOpenDoors this Saturday. All welcome @OxfordWesley New Inn Hall Street, next to @SPC_Oxford
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The original font @OxfordWesley was a miniature Minton ceramic copy of the font @marymagsoxford . When it was replaced by a floor standing font in 1963 it was transferred to another @MethodistGB church in #Oxford #FontsOnFriday
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For the second time in a month I find myself holding a tiny #serpentine font this time at the #Methodist #Heritage centre in Wighton, Norfolk. The font came from the North Walsham area. #FontsOnFriday
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Great ‘field trip’ today to visit the East Anglia #Methodist Heritage Centre at Wighton, North Norfolk. Super displays, interesting objects, friendly welcome plus coffee and biscuits!
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It was a poignant pleasure to visit the exhibition of Jim Godfrey’s art work @ChChCathedralOx today. Such talent, humour and eye for detail. A very special person. Sorely missed by us all.
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Mosaic logo of Cowley Road Methodist Church, #Oxford for #TilesOnTuesday
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Named after a Wesleyan cotton manufacturer and a Primitive Methodist jam manufacturer, this annual #Methodist lecture will be given @OxfordWesley this evening. Looking forward to being challenged by this message.
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Great to welcome the Wesleyan Pilgrimage 2024 to @OxfordWesley today. They loved our lenticular panels in the heritage atrium.
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Super excited to have seen and handled this tiny #serpentine font @morethanadodo this morning. Only about 16cm tall it’s possible that it was an apprentice piece but equally could have been used as a travelling #font for home baptisms or was made as a souvenir. #FontsOnFriday
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Not sure about the idea of a #Wesley commemorative ashtray! #weird #wesleyana
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Methodist Heritage Oxford retweeted
Early Methodism’s mandate to “watch over one another in love” is one of the most beautiful expressions of Christian community ever attempted.
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