2017 ANNUAL LECTURE & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
PROGRAMME SATURDAY 1 JULY 2017
A rare opportunity to visit the historic Kingswood School founded by John Wesley in 1748 which moved from Bristol to its present site overlooking Bath in 1851
Morning Programme
9.45am
Welcome drinks in the Posnett Gallery
10.30am
G. M. Best (Headmaster Kingswood School 1987-2008)
A talk – Kingswood School and its role in Methodist Education
11.15am
Tours, including seeing the historic Wesley pulpit
12 noon
A talk by the Kingswood archivist
12.45 Lunch
Please bring your own packed lunch – Drinks provided
1.15pm
WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
(Open to all)
2-30pm
Worship in Kingswood Chapel
followed by the
The Annual Lecture
Subject: G. M. Best: John Cennick: the first Son of the Gospel
The lecture will explore how John Cennick emerged as the first lay preacher, and how significant his contribution was, why he fell out with the Wesleys and his later life.
3.45pm Drinks
4.00pm Finish
OPTIONAL PROGRAMME SUNDAY 2nd JULY 2017
10.30am
Opportunity to see the new facilities of John Wesley’s Chapel – ‘The New Room’, Bristol including the twelve-roomed Wesley Museum across the entire upper floor of ‘The New Room’ Museum entry charge £3.50, including an audio guide.
12.00 noon
Service in John Wesley’s Chapel – ‘The New Room’
2.00 - 3.15pm
Optional opportunity to visit Charles Wesley’s House. No charge. Places on this visit to be reserved directly with John Wesley’s Chapel –‘The New Room’ at least one month in advance.
Travel
Links between Bath and Bristol: Good bus and rail connections between Bath and Bristol on the Sunday morning.
Bristol Park and Ride does not operate on Sundays.
Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath. BA1 5RG
Full details may be had from the General Secretary of the Wesley Historical Society, Dr John A Hargreaves,
7 Haugh Shaw Road, Halifax. HX1 3AH
E-mail: johnahargreaves@blueyonder.co.uk
Recent Annual Lectures |
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| 2012 | Professor John Wolffe |
| 2013 | Revd Margaret P, Jones MA, M Phil |
| 2014 | Professor Michael Hughes, |
| 2015 | Rev Dr Stephen Hatcher Chair Methodist Heritage Sites Network Forum. ‘Prims in Print: the changing character of Primitive Methodism as seen through its literature’ |
| 2016 | Emeritus Professor John Richard Watson Formerly Professor of English, University of Durham. ‘Charles Wesley and eighteenth-century poetry’ |
