A renaissance gem close to a Florentine palace!

Godfrey Holmes selects the finest chapels in the county – and discovers more about Methodism’s remarkable architectural heritage.

IN AN IDEAL WORLD, the Anglican Church  would have kept intact after King Henry VIII’s split from Roman Catholicism.  But it didn’t happen that way. “Dissenters” of all descriptions founded their own Christian denominations: both in Britain and the Colonies.  And the largest of these new groupings – John Wesley’s indirect creation – became known as Methodism, after the “method” of daily witness and worship that was the breakaway’s  hallmark…