The Windows of Wesley United Cambridge

 "I Am The Light of the World" - given in memory of Emerson Bristol Roelofson"A Sower Went Forth to Sow" given in memory of John Stanley Knapp, 1891 - 1967 and his wife Emily Elizabeth Taylor, 1893 - 1967 "The Shepherd and His Sheep" - given in memory of George Langford Baldwin, 1851 - 1927 and his wife Barbara Christina, 1848 - 1933"This Do In Remembrance of Me" - in memory of the Rev. Herbert Stanley Belbin, B.A., B.D.; "And the Word was made Flesh and Dwelt Among Us"- given in memory of John Taylor, Jr., 1873-1943 and his wife Mary Ella Sherwood, 1876 - 1945 "Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me" - in memory of Thomas Alexander Rutherford and his wife Mary Eliza Wilson


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A BRIEF HISTORY OF WESLEY UNITED CHURCH
During the 1850's three churches of the Methodist persuasion worshipped in Galt. The Primitive Methodists
met on Ainslie Street and the Wesleyan Methodists on Thorne Street. The New Connection Methodists who
had moved from their beginnings in 1840 on south Water Street were located on Dickson Street.

 In 1872 the Wesleyans moved into the original Knox Church where the market building now stands. With it
they acquired all the adjacent land, now the Market Square. All branches of Methodism joined to form the
Methodist Church of Canada in 1875.

 By 1880, the combined congregations had built the main structure of our present church known as Ainslie
Street Methodist Church. The surrounding land was sold to the city. By 1885 attendance had increased so
much that it was necessary to build the galleries. In 1925, with the formation of the United Church of Canada,
the church became Wesley United Church.

 On January 9, 1938 a new addition was dedicated, the chapel and parlour with a stage for Ainslie Hall and a
furnace room below. The Christian Education Building provided classrooms, offices and the Ballentine Hall,
which was completed on April 16, 1961.

 The buildings testify to the faith and fellowship of many persons from 1840 to the present day.

West View

Wesley House

North View

North West View

CE Wing

East View

South East View

South View

Front of the Sanctuary

Rear of the Sanctuary

Rose Window

Parlor

Chapel

Chapel

Ainslie Hall

Ballantyne Hall

 


 

Wesley United Church
6 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Ontario, Canada
Telephone 621-6060
E-mail: information@wesleyunited.ca