Old travel Blog photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall above shops in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the majority Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements. The word " Wesleyan " was added to the title to differentiate it from the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, founded by George Whitefield who, like Wesley and his brother Charles, had been a member of the Holy Club in Oxford to which the, originally derogatory, epithet " Methodist " was first applied, and from the Primitive Methodist movement, which separated from the Wesleyans in 1807. The Wesleyan Methodist Church followed the Wesleys in holding to an Arminian theology, as against Whitefield's Calvinism; its Conference was also the legal successor to John Wesley as holder of the property of the original Methodist Societies.
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Paisley Central Hall is still standing and is the last Methodist Central Hall in Scotland. The word 'Wesleyan' no longer appears on the front but if you stand across the road and look carefully you can still see traces of it.
To find out more about the heritage of the building see: https://arc-methodists.org.uk/paisley/heritage
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