From University of Manchester we learn that Bray was "a poor uneducated layman, possessed of a deep religious faith. A brazier by trade, his house in the district of the city known as Little Britain was the centre for early Methodist/Moravian activities until it was superseded by the Fetter Lane meeting room."
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John Bray
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Bray's house
Adjoining this site stood the house of John Bray, scene of Charles Wesley's e...
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During the period 1785 -1862 a group of Particular Baptists used a house in what is now Burrell Street, SE11. They rebuilt it in 1801 and then in 1862 they had a new chapel built in Barkham Terrace...
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The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
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St Luke's Church - Charlton
Mentioned as early as 1077, the present church was built with funds left by Charlton House's owner Sir Adam Newton. Spencer Perceval is buried here.
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