For this he was arraigned before the Conference of 1796 and expelled, and he then founded the Methodist New Connexion (1798, merged since 1907 in the United Methodist Church (Great Britain)), and now part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain following the reunification of 1932.
There is an old congregation of Wesleyan Methodists in the area.
The estate has St Andrew's Methodist church, a Community Centre, shops and Wigginton Park, the home to Tamworth Rugby Union Football Club.
A later development of Whitfield's ministry was the Free Church of England, a result of Whitfield's influence upon the Church of England.
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The movement which would become the Methodist Church began in the mid-18th century within the Church of England.
He was a Wesleyan Methodist, and preached occasionally in the chapel of his sect at Newcastle.
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The church was part of the Wesleyan Methodist tradition, and during the early 20th century became part of a circuit of six local Wesleyan churches; the others were the nearby Dorset Gardens Methodist Church (also in Kemptown), Hove Methodist Church, and others in Hurstpierpoint, Portslade and Southwick.
The Society is an interdenominational charity and has close links with many of the mainstream Protestant Churches in the United Kingdom, such as the Baptist Union, Church of Scotland, United Reformed Church, and the Methodist Church.
He worked as gardener and botanist for Sir Robert Harland at Orwell Park near Ipswich until dismissed for abandoning Anglicanism for Wesleyan Methodism.