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Interesting chairs

We performed a little recital in the New Room (John Wesley's Chapel) in Bristol today, with our friend Marilyn. It is the oldest Methodist Chapel in the world (originally built in 1739). Above the New Room are the Preacher's Rooms, where John Wesley and visiting preachers stayed, which is now a museum and contains these two interesting chairs.

The left chair is Adam Clarke's 'Garden Chair', made from the upturned trunk of a hollow elm tree, and presented to Dr Clarke in 1820. He was an eminent Methodist theologian and biblical scholar.
The right chair is the chair from which John Wesley preached his last open-air sermon in Winchelsea, Sussex, in 1790.

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