Aldersgate Street, London

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Aldersgate Street, London is a historic thoroughfare in the City of London, best known as the site of John Wesley’s transformative “Aldersgate experience” that helped spark the Methodist movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf street
thoroughfare
associatedWith Evangelical Revival in Britain
John Wesley
Methodism
connectedTo Barbican
London Wall
St. Martin’s Le Grand
continuesAs Goswell Road
formsPartOf London Inner Ring Road
hasBuildingType commercial premises
office buildings
residential buildings
hasCategory Streets in the City of London
hasCommemoration memorial plaque to John Wesley’s Aldersgate experience
hasHeritage site of significant 18th-century religious event
hasHistoricalEvent John Wesley’s Aldersgate experience on 24 May 1738
hasNearbyLandmark Barbican Centre
Barbican Estate
Museum of London
St Botolph’s Aldersgate (former church site)
hasNearbyReligiousSite Wesley’s Chapel (on City Road, associated historically)
hasNearbyTransport Barbican station
St. Paul’s station
hasPostcodeDistrict EC1
EC2
historicallyDamagedBy The Blitz
historicallyServedBy Aldersgate
historicalParish St Botolph Aldersgate
knownFor association with John Wesley’s Aldersgate experience
role in early Methodist movement history
languageOfToponym English
locatedIn City of London
England
London
linked to: London, England

United Kingdom
namedAfter Aldersgate (city gate)
linked to: Aldersgate
orientation roughly north–south
partOf A1 road (London)
partOfConservationArea Barbican and Golden Lane Conservation Area
rebuiltAfter Second World War
linked to: World War II
withinJurisdictionOf City of London Corporation

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Aldersgate experience hasLocation Aldersgate Street, London