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High Street, DONCASTER, DN9 1EP

Grade II Listed house with 17th century origins and 18th century brick encasing. This gable rebuilt and shop front added in the mid to late 19th century. One of the earliest surviving vernacular buildings in the Isle of Axholme.

On High Street.

Erected in 1860 as a memorial to Alexander Kilham, born in Epworth in 1762. He became the founder of the Methodist New Connection in 1797. He died in 1798. The building was converted to a Youth Centre in 1944.

Epworth News, 28-30 High Street, Epworth. Note the fascia advertising for the Epworth Bells & Crowle Advertiser. This is one of two papers serving this small town, the other being the Axholme Herald Image

Grade II Listed church 1888-9 by Charles Bell, builder H Kelsey. Part of an unusually ornate group of Methodist buildings, erected in commemoration of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91), and the Wesley family of Epworth. The foundation stone laid 20th September 1888, the formal opening was on 15th September 1889 but not fully completed until 1891. Originally Mr Hicks was appointed as architect in 1886 but asked to resign in 1888 and Charles Bell (1846-1899) appointed. Bell's practice was in London and he built more than 60 Methodist chapels. Kelsey's quotation for the build was £2,749. The organ was purchased for £350 and dedicated in 1891. It was restored in 2015.

This photo shows the Methodist Church in High Street DN9 1EP with the blue noticeboard by the pavement. This church was built in 1888 as a memorial to John and Charles Wesley, and various reminders of them can be seen inside it. Two cedar trees can be seen each side of the church near the front walls.

In the small town where John and Charles Wesley grew up, and where their father Samuel was rector at the parish church. Methodism came about after John and Charles had died.

Situated in High Street DN9 1EP, this church was formally opened in September 1889 and is one of several churches in the Epworth and Scunthorpe Methodist Circuit. Services are held here each Sunday at 10.30am and 6.00pm, with Holy Communion being held at 9.00am on the first Sunday of each month. Also, activities take place during the week.

Located inside the Wesley Memorial Methodist Chapel, this tablet was transferred from the earlier Wesleyan Chapel and is dedicated to the memory of John Wesley. It has the following wording: Sacred to the memory of the Rev John Wesley, M.A. sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and founder of the Methodist Society, was born at Epworth June 17th 1703 of the Rev Samuel Wesley, M.A. and his wife Susannah, by whom he was prayerfully educated in the things of God, died in London March 2nd 1791, in the full triumph of faith, after sixty five years of unremitting and successful ministerial toil, aged 87 years. Soli Deo Gloria These three words are the Latin term for 'Glory to God alone'.