Bath Wesleyan Reform/Methodist New Connexion chapel

J Cornelius Starbuck writes:

“This building in Quiet Street, home in 2022 to the Royal Bank of Scotland, was used in the Nineteenth Century by two breakaway movements of the Methodist Church.

Firstly the Wesleyan Reformers from 1857 to 1869 and then by the Methodist New Connexion until 1881. The New Connexion subsequently joined with the United Free Methodists  in 1907 to form the United Methodist Church.

The New Connexion was formed by Alexander Kilham in 1797 and the membership was mainly confined to the Midlands and the North of England. William Booth was an Ordained minister of the New Connexion and, following a disagreement with the hierarchy regarding his request to have a roving commission as an evangelist around the country, he left them whilst stationed at Gateshead in 1861, subsequently to form the Salvation Army.”