Barnack Methodist Wesleyan Chapel
Barnack Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist) Barnack is in Northamptonshire.
The first chapel was built in 1828. It was replaced on a new site by the present chapel in 1898.
The chapel was in the following circuits at the dates indicated: Stamford Wesleyan Methodist Circuit 1828-1932
Stamford Methodist Circuit 1932-1997 Stamford and Rutland Methodist Circuit from 1997.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the major 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. "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.[1] 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 holders of the property of the original Methodist Societies.[2]
The title "Wesleyan Methodist Church" remained in use until the Methodist Union of 1932, when the church re-united with the Primitive Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church to form the current Methodist Church of Great Britain.
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