=Wesleyan Methodists.=--John Wesley preached his first sermon in Birmingham in 1743, but it was not until 1764 that his followers acquired an old play house in Moor Street as their first chapel which he opened. In 1782 they had so prospered as to build a chapel in Cherry Street, which was opened by John Wesley himself, then in his eightieth year. This chapel, enlarged in the year 1823, is now (July, 1886) to be pulled down, and a new chapel built in Corporation Street. The rapid increase of numbers necessitated additional chapels in Bradford Street (1786), BELMONT ROW (1789), MARTIN STREET, (Broad Street) (1834), NEWTOWN ROW CHAPEL (1837), WESLEY CHAPEL, Constitution Hill (1838), besides a chapel in Bell Barn Road for which the present BRISTOL ROAD CHAPEL (1854) was substituted. For the purposes of connexional organization the Birmingham district is divided into seven circuits, which include not only the chapels already mentioned but also thirty-three others within the Borough and its suburbs, including Smethwick. METHODIST NEW CONNEXION.--This section of the Methodist Community, which separated from the Wesleyans in 1797, only on questions of the share of the laity in church government, first built a chapel in Oxford Street (1811) now disused, then another in the northern part of the town, Unett Street (1838), and have since built smaller ones in Moseley Street, Priestley Road (Stratford Road) Ladywood, Heath Street and Crabtree Road (Brookfields) in the Borough. These and a chapel at Smethwick are divided into two circuits supplied by three circuit ministers. THE PRIMITIVE METHODISTS.--This body has thirteen chapels in and near to the Borough, divided into three circuits, and served by four regular ministers. The largest of these is in Gooch Street, and the others in the Borough are in Sparkbrook, King Street, Lord Street, Nechells, Garrison Lane, Whitmore Street (Hockley) and Ladywood. THE UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCHES have two circuits and two circuit ministers and chapels in Rocky Lane (Nechells) Bond Street, (recently acquired from the Baptists, _q.v._) and Muntz Street (Birmingham Heath) besides one at Washwood Heath. THE WESLEYAN REFORMERS.--Have one regular minister and two chapels in Upper Trinity Street and Floodgate Street. =The English Presbyterian Church.=--These are the orthodox Presbyterians, as distinguished from the churches which, like the Old Meeting congregation, became Arian or Unitarian. They first occupied what is now the Baptist Chapel at Mount Zion, which was opened by the celebrated Edward Irving (see Baptists), and then a chapel in Newhall Street, afterwards the church in BROAD STREET, which is their principal edifice. They have also churches at Camp Hill and New John Street West.