The chapel is set within a
cobbled courtyard off City Road, with the chapel at the furthest end and Wesley's house on the right.
John Wesley's House John Wesley's House, a
mid-Georgian townhouse, was built in 1779 at the same time as the chapel. It was Wesley's residence for the last eleven years of his life. He is commemorated by a
blue plaque on the City Road frontage. This
Grade I listed building is open to visitors as a
historic house museum. It was built by Wesley and designed by
George Dance the younger, at that time the surveyor of the City of London. Wesley lived in the house for the last twelve years of his life and died in his bedroom. The house was also used to accommodate travelling preachers and their families. The household servants also lived on the premises. The house continued to be used for travelling preachers after Wesley's death until it was turned into a museum in the 1900s. In the dining room his Chamber Horse is set up which he used for exercise; on display in the study is his
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Courtyard, gardens and cemetery At the front of Wesley's House is a small
physic garden which contains herbs mentioned in Wesley's book,
The Primitive Physic. It details ways in which common people could cure themselves using natural medicines as they couldn't afford a doctor. Wesley died on 2 March 1791. His tomb is in the garden at the rear of the chapel alongside the graves of six of his preachers, and those of his sister Martha Hall and his doctor and biographer,
Dr John Whitehead., enabling the removal of remains, tombstones and vaults, for the construction of the office building at the rear of the chapel. A memorial to
Susanna Wesley, Wesley's mother, stands just inside the gate to the front courtyard.
A bronze statue of Wesley with the inscription "the world is my parish" stands at the entrance to the courtyard; created in 1891 by
John Adams-Acton, the sculpture is
Grade II listed. Elijah Hoole was responsible for the 10-foot high granite pedestal on which the statue stands.
Victorian lavatory The site also houses one of the few surviving examples of gentlemen's toilets built by the sanitary engineer
Thomas Crapper in 1891. == The Leysian Mission ==