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About Regent Street, Newtownards Methodist Church
Regent Street, Newtownards Methodist Church is a congregation of the Methodist Church in Ireland in Newtownards, County Down. It is part of the Ards & North Down in the North Eastern District.
History
The congregation traces the beginnings of Methodism in Newtownards to a preacher named Thomas Walsh, the son of a Co. Limerick carpenter, who died at the age of 28.
John Wesley preached on the Green at Newtownards on 12 May 1758, having preached at Comber about noon the same day, and recorded the visit in his journal. He visited the town on 11 occasions in all. In 1773 he preached in the market house, which had been built in 1771. His last visit was in 1789, when he was 86; by then he no longer preached in the open air and the town hall was too small, so he was received in the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church on Frances Street.
Clergy
- Minister Rev Colin Milligan
