appear to claim a mutual relationship to the founder of Methodism with
the Wesleyans, and retain the doctrines, ordinances, and general
discipline common to that body, from which they differ only in the form
of church government and professed dissent from the Church of England.
This society formed a congregation here in 1833, and in Jan. 1834, an
edifice for their service was commenced near the Old Tower, Murivance,
which was opened June 13 in the same year.
The exterior is handsome, having two entrances with a Doric portico to
each, and is divided into three parts, viz. a centre and two wings,
formed with Corinthian pilasters, frieze, and cornice; the centre
terminates with a pediment, and the wings with a broken blocking and
Grecian tiles. The interior is without galleries, and arranged on rather
a novel plan; the middle is occupied by two rows of pews, with a row on
each of the sides which ascend gradually from the floor, and thereby
afford great economy of space.
Two ends of the building being flanked by dwellings, light is admitted
from the side portions, but a good effect, notwithstanding, is produced
from the blank walls, which display arches and plain pilasters supporting
a frieze and cornice.
The ground at the back declining considerably from the street, spacious
school-rooms, a vestry, and a house for the door-keeper, are formed
underneath the building, which is calculated to contain 700 persons, and
cost £1500.