Wesley’s Alive!

by Epworth Old Rectory on May 15th, 2025 in blog

Come and visit us from Aldersgate Day – Saturday 24th May and encounter the Wesley family as never before! Using your smart phone you will be able to watch and listen the portraits of Samuel and Susanna Wesley discuss their long and eventful marriage, and see the bust of John Wesley ‘come alive’ in the hallway. Explore the kitchen and you will find John Wesley in there as well, talking about his book A Primitive Physick and some of his ideas on cures and exercise, whilst upstairs you will find Susanna in the best chamber and Samuel, separately this time, in his study. Finally you will discover two newly displayed paintings – a trio of Susanna, John and his brother Charles having a heated discussion in the Master Chamber and then Samuel Junior in the nursery explaining why he did not talk until he was 5-years old.

The whole exhibition has been developed by local family firm Ultimate Image who have been working with us to develop the scripts, voice the family members and, of course, undertake all the technical wizardry that make our paintings come alive.