Erection date: 1926
{below his feet:}
The world is my parish
{On the base of the granite pedestal:}
Erected with funds collected by the children of Methodism
{On the stone below the granite pedestal:}
Wesley
EC1, City Road, 47, Wesley Chapel
The pedestal was designed by Elijah Hoole.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Wesley statue - City Road
Founder of the Methodist denomination of the Protestant religion. Born Epwort...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Wesley statue - City Road
Sculptor.  Born John Adams in Acton and later added the (now) suburb's name t...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
The close up photo was taken some months (and some graffiti) after the other photo.
The two foundation stones can be seen below the more ornate plaque. We do like their plain multi-layered frames. The building was threat...
David Devant, 1868 - 1941, magician, lived here in flat no. 1. English Heritage
James Leasor, author, lived here, 1923 - 1930. Bexley Civic Society
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