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height: 104px; float: left; margin: 0px 5px;" />Methodists began worshipping in Barnet around 1760. The Shewell family who lived at the Beacon House, next to St Mary’s Church in Monken Hadley, were Methodists and great friends of John Wesley. They allowed the Methodists to worship in a cottage at Hadley which they gave to the Methodist Society in 1770. The original deed remains in the possession of the local church.</span></span></p> 302 303<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">John Wesley would have been a frequent visitor to Barnet and Hadley but as his diary is missing until 1783 there is no record of his visits until his entry in his published <em>Journal </em>in November/December 1769:</span></span></p> 304 305<p> </p> 306 307<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>Thur. 30. I preached at Wandsworth. For many years, the people here were the most dead but are now the most active of any about London. Friday, December the 1<sup>st</sup>, I preached at Barnet, which was last year what Wandsworth is now.</em></span></span></p> 308 309<p> </p> 310 311<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">In November 1771 John came to Barnet to take the funeral of John Shewell (1705-71). He wrote:</span></span></p> 312 313<p> </p> 314 315<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>I went over to Barnet and paid my last debt to that excellent man, Mr John Shewell, by preaching his funeral sermon from, ‘It is appointed unto men once to die.’ All the time that I knew him, he was a pattern of seriousness, piety, patience, and beneficience.</em></span></span></p> 316 317<p> </p> 318 319<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Some years later in October 1786 John raced across country to get to Elizabeth Shewell’s funeral. He wrote:</span></span></p> 320 321<p> </p> 322 323<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>
323We did not reach Hoddesdon till after sunset. I then took a post-chaise, for the Dilgence went the other road. But as we had a rough by-road across the country without either moon or stars, we could not reach the chapel till half an hour after seven. About half the congregation were gone away, an officious man having informed them I would not come. With the other half, which pretty well filled the house, we had a solemn opportunity.</em></span></span></p> 324 325<p> </p> 326 327<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">He went on to say:</span></span></p> 328 329<p> </p> 330 331<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>So I have lived to see the large family at Hadley, two brothers and three sisters, all removed. So does ‘the earth drop its inhabitants, as the tree its leaves’.</em></span></span></p> 332 333<p> </p> 334 335<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The family tomb of the Shewells is in the churchyard next to Beacon House. In her will Elizabeth Shewell left £350 for the benefit of the Methodists of Barnet. The interest on this bequest is still paid to the circuit. </span></span></p> 336 337<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Back in 1772 John Wesley recorded in his Journal:</span></span></p> 338 339<p> </p> 340 341<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>I went to Barnet and found a large congregation, though it was a rainy and dark evening.</em></span></span></p> 342 343<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Five years later, in December 1777, he wrote:</span></span></p> 344 345<p> </p> 346 347<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>I visited the chief societies in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire, and returned by Hertford, where (for once) I saw a quiet and serious congregation. We had a larger congregation at Barnet in the evening than ever, and a greater number of communicants. Will this poor, barren wilderness at length blossom and bud as the rose?</em></span></span></p> 348 349<p> </p> 350 351<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The Journal was written for publication (indeed some parts were prepared for publication while he was staying in Hadley) but his diaries were not.
351 These exist only from 1783 but from then on there are frequent detailed references to his stays, usually on his way back from a trip to the north.</span></span></p> 352 353<p> </p> 354 355<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">On Friday, 30<sup>th</sup> May 1783 he records that he stopped for lunch in Barnet and shared it with his brother Charles. It is likely that they would have met at the Red Lion at the top of Barnet Hill. The Wesleys were Tories and the Red Lion was the Tory hostelry in the town. It was later pulled down and rebuilt. This was at a difficult time in the relationship between the brothers. We can only imagine what they had to say to each other.</span></span></p> 356 357<p> </p> 358 359<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A typical diary entry, for Friday, 7<sup>th</sup> January 1785 reads:</span></span></p> 360 361<p> </p> 362 363<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>3 Chaise. 5 Hadley; tea, religious talk. 6 Luke 20;34! Communion; supper, religious talk; prayer. 9.30 Ill. Saturday: 4.30 Prayed; Magazine; tea. 6 Chaise.</em></span></span></p> 364 365<p> </p> 366 367<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">So on this overnight stay Wesley managed two sessions of religious conversation. He preached on the text: ‘And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:’ (No wonder there was an exclamation mark!) He celebrated Holy Communion before eating his evening meal, but he went to bed at 9.30pm feeling unwell. This did not stop him getting up to pray at 4.30am and writing for the <em>Arminian Magazine </em>before having tea and leaving by chaise at 6am. He was aged 81 at that time.</span></span></p> 368 369<p> </p> 370 371<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">John Leifchild, who was born in Barnet in 1780 and went on to become a famous Congregationalist minister and a founder of the Evangelical Alliance, was the son of John Leifchild, a cooper and a member of the local Wesleyan society. He remembered hearing John Wesley preach in Barnet and later recalled that Wesley ‘drove to our father’s house, and when the door of the chaise was opened, he came out in his canonicals. Childlike, I ran to lay hold of him, but my father pulled me back; upon which extending his hand, he said: “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.”’</span></span></p> 372 373<p> </p> 374 375<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">In October 1786 Wesley recorded in his Journal<em>, I preached at Barnet, probably for the last time </em>but in November 1787, aged 84, he wrote <em>I set out early, and about noon preached at Barnet to a small, serious congregation. </em>His text on this occasion was Hebrews 2:1 (‘Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.’) In February 1788 he visited a surviving member of the Shewell family and in November 1788 he passed through Barnet twice. These were his last recorded visits.</span></span></p> 376 377<p> </p> 378 379<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">John Wesley’s name lives on in Wesley Hall, the Methodist community centre in Barnet, and in the parish church of St John the Baptist, Chipping Barnet. This has been substantially rebuilt since Wesley’s day but there is an excellent wooden carving of him in the pulpit installed in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century, alongside other great preachers.</span></span></p> 380 381<p> </p> 382 383<p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A minor Wesley association with the area is that Samuel Wesley, the composer son of Charles Wesley, lived in Ridge, a small village close to Barnet. Samuel, who had converted to Roman Catholicism, lived in an ‘irregular relationship’ there with Charlotte Martin. Expecting their first child, they finally married and their son Charles was born and baptised at St Margaret’s, Ridge on 20<sup>th</sup> October 1793. He went on to become an Anglican priest and royal chaplain. His half-brother, not born locally, was Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the great musician.</span></span></p> 384 385<p> </p> 386 387<p><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>After the Wesleys</strong></span></span></span></p> 388 389<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 873px;"> 390 <tbody> 391 <tr> 392 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1811</strong></span></span></span></td> 393 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 394 </tr> 395 <tr> 396 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A Barnet Wesleyan Methodist circuit was created with Thomas Padman as superintendent and Moses Dunn as ‘missionary’. In 1812 there was only one minister, William Theobald, and in 1813 the circuit ceased to exist. It was 1875 before a local, New Barnet, circuit was created again.</span></span></td> 397 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 398 </tr> 399 <tr> 400 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1838 </strong></span></span></span></td> 401 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 402 </tr> 403 <tr> 404 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A purpose-built Wesleyan chapel was built overlooking Hadley Common on the site of the property given to the Methodist Society in 1770. It was extended in 1876 and still stands. It was sold to the Baptists in 1890.</span></span></td> 405 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" height="121" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/91.jpg" width="150" /></span></span></td> 406 </tr> 407 <tr> 408 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1846</strong></span></span></span></td> 409 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 410 </tr> 411 <tr> 412 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">During the mid 19th century the <em>Wesleyan Methodist Magazine </em>carried obituaries of three holy Methodist women from Barnet Mrs Singer who died in 1846, Ann Hale in 1855 and Catherine Allen in 1861.</span></span></td> 413 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 414 </tr> 415 <tr> 416 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1857</strong></span></span></span></td> 417 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 418 </tr> 419 <tr> 420 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Methodist work began in New Barnet under the influence of Mark Elvidge, a Yorkshire farmer who had come to live there. A school-chapel was opened in 1874</span></span></td> 421 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 422 </tr> 423 <tr> 424 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1880</strong></span></span></span></td> 425 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 426 </tr> 427 <tr> 428 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The very fine New Barnet Wesleyan Methodist Church was opened with the Revd Dr Morley Punshon as preacher.
428 It was demolished in 1963 because of structural problems</span></span></td> 429 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" height="163" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/93.jpg" width="109" /></span></span></td> 430 </tr> 431 <tr> 432 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1892</strong></span></span></span></td> 433 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 434 </tr> 435 <tr> 436 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The new High Barnet Methodist Church was opened in Barnet High Street by the Revd Dr Thomas Bowman Stephenson, founder of the National Children’s Home. It was demolished in the late 1980s to make way for ‘The Spires’ shopping centre. The ‘spires’ remain on the High Street from the former church.</span></span></td> 437 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/92.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 179px;" /></span></span></td> 438 </tr> 439 <tr> 440 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1893</strong></span></span></span></td> 441 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 442 </tr> 443 <tr> 444 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">William Jackson built a Gospel Mission Hall in Jackson Road, East Barnet. It is now a private house.</span></span></td> 445 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 446 </tr> 447 <tr> 448 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1915</strong></span></span></span></td> 449 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 450 </tr> 451 <tr> 452 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The first Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was opened in East Barnet, "a good iron hut" given by Miss Wyburn of Hadley Manor. It was built on land given by William Jackson, local builder and landlord of the Prince of Wales public house.</span></span></td> 453 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/50.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 118px;" /></span></span></td> 454 </tr> 455 <tr> 456 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1930</strong></span></span></span></td> 457 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 458 </tr> 459 <tr> 460 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A new Wesleyan Methodist Church was opened in East Barnet adjoining the 1915 building. It was opened by the Hon Mrs J Arthur Rank, the wife of the Methodist businessman and movie mogul. It is still in use as the church hall.</span></span></td> 461 <td style="width: 175px;"> 462 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/95.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 110px;" /></span></span></p> 463 464 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/88.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 74px;" /></span></span></p> 465 </td> 466 </tr> 467 <tr> 468 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1967</strong></span></span></span></td> 469 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 470 </tr> 471 <tr> 472 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Brookside Methodist Church was opened in East Barnet as a result of the amalgamation of New Barnet and East Barnet Methodist Churches</span></span></td> 473 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/94.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 215px;" /></span></span></td> 474 </tr> 475 <tr> 476 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1987</strong></span></span></span></td> 477 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 478 </tr> 479 <tr> 480 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Following the demolition of the Methodist Church in Barnet High Street, the Methodist congregation there entered into a sharing agreement with the congregation of St. John the Baptist church, Chipping Barnet. This continued until 2006.</span></span></td> 481 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 482 </tr> 483 <tr> 484 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>1990</strong></span></span></span></td> 485 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 486 </tr> 487 <tr> 488 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Wesley Hall was built at the corner of Stapylton Road and Carnarvon Road in High Barnet. It is a community centre run by the Methodist Church. Informal worship, <em>Celebration</em>, takes place there every Sunday.</span></span></td> 489 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/26.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></td> 490 </tr> 491 <tr> 492 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2005</strong></span></span></span></td> 493 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 494 </tr> 495 <tr> 496 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The then Rector of East Barnet, Richard Watson, and the Methodist minister, Colin Smith, were recognised as associate ministers of each others churches.</span></span></td> 497 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/97.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></td> 498 </tr> 499 <tr> 500 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2006</strong></span></span></span></td> 501 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 502 </tr> 503 <tr> 504 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The first stage of the redevelopment of Brookside Methodist Church in East Barnet was complete at the beginning of the year. This included a new entrance facing the village war memorial. Later in the year High Barnet and Brookside Methodist joined to form Barnet Brookside Methodist Church, a two-centre church. At the same time a new Barnet & Queensbury circuit was created within the new London District.</span></span></td> 505 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/24.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></td> 506 </tr> 507 <tr> 508 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2007</strong></span></span></span></td> 509 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 510 </tr> 511 <tr> 512 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">
512The Rt Revd Christopher Foster, then Bishop of Hertford and now Bishop of Portsmouth presided at Holy Communion at Brookside on Palm Sunday. The first time a bishop of the Church of England had done so.</span></span></td> 513 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/96.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></td> 514 </tr> 515 <tr> 516 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2008</strong></span></span></span></td> 517 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 518 </tr> 519 <tr> 520 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The East Barnet Anglican-Methodist Partnership was inaugurated between East Barnet Parish Church, St Mary the Virgin, and Barnet Brookside Methodist Church. The Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, preached at the morning service at Brookside and the Revd Dr Stuart Jordan, Methodist District Chair, led the act of commitment.<br /> 521 In the evening the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. Lord Griffiths preached at St. Mary's Church.</span></span></td> 522 <td style="width: 175px;"> 523 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/98.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></p> 524 525 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/99.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></p> 526 </td> 527 </tr> 528 <tr> 529 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2009</strong></span></span></span></td> 530 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 531 </tr> 532 <tr> 533 <td style="width: 684px;"> 534 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">A legal sharing agreement was entered into between St. Mary's Church and Brookside for the sharing of each other's premises.</span></span></p> 535 </td> 536 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 537 </tr> 538 <tr> 539 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2010</strong></span></span></span></td> 540 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 541 </tr> 542 <tr> 543 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Celebration of the 250th anniversary of the beginnings of Methodism in Barnet.</span></span></td> 544 <td style="width: 175px;"> 545 <p> </p> 546 547 <p><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/100.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></p> 548 </td> 549 </tr> 550 <tr> 551 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2011</strong></span></span></span></td> 552 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 553 </tr> 554 <tr> 555 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">For the first time the Rabbi of Barnet United Synagogue joined the representatives of St Mary's, East Barnet Baptist Church and Brookside at the war memorial (which is outside the Methodist Church) to jointly lead the Remembrance Sunday ceremonies.</span></span></td> 556 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/101.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 200px;" /></span></span></td> 557 </tr> 558 <tr> 559 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2012</strong></span></span></span></td> 560 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 561 </tr> 562 <tr> 563 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Completion of the second stage of the upgrading of the church premises at Brookside and the renewal of the mission of Wesley Hall.</span></span></td> 564 <td style="width: 175px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><img alt="" src="/content/pages/uploaded_images/102.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 113px;" /></span></span></td> 565 </tr> 566 <tr> 567 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>2013</strong></span></span></span></td> 568 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 569 </tr> 570 <tr> 571 <td style="width: 684px;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Starting to plan for the upgrade of the kitchen and hall spaces over the next 12 months, and upgrades taking place to Wesley Hall</span></span></td> 572 <td style="width: 175px;"> </td> 573 </tr> 574 <tr> 575 <td style="width: 684px; text-align: center;"><span style="color:#b52129;"><span style="font-size:Medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong>
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