Gracious Street Methodist Church, Knaresborough
Our last Knaresborough church for Easter weekend completes the Holy Trinity in our eyes, and is of course the Gracious Street Methodist Church. This one has the most interesting history out of the three in our opinion, and to be honest that may be simply because it had the most information to give in regards to its history, this includes the origin of their name! Let us go back to the 27th of May 1742. A man named John Wesley was on his way to Newcastle and was riding through Knaresborough on the way. He happened to start talking to a man who was walking along the street that night and from this singular conversation a movement started. From that point onward a group began to meet and called themselves 'methodists' then continued to grow in number. By 1795 a meeting place had been erected at Bond End so that the group had a more permanent place to meet. As the Methodists grew further space grew short, so another building was required. When 1815 rolled around they...
