Following a two year building project Wesley House Cambridge is re-opening its doors to students and scholars in the Wesleyan tradition from all over the world.
On 27th April two new buildings will be formally opened on the Jesus Lane site and the whole college will be rededicated following its refurbishment. Guests include HRH the Earl of Wessex, The Secretary of the World Methodist Council and the President of the British Methodist Conference and key donors including the great-grandson of the original founder, Michael Gutteridge for whom the new academic building has been named, representatives of the Stanfield Family including the oldest living alumnus of the college, and representatives of the Maurice and Hilda Laing Trust.
The programme for the week (24 to 30 April 2017)
| Monday 24 April | Methodist Studies Seminar | Gutteridge Building, Wesley House | Attendance by registration. £15, including lunch |
| Monday 24 April at 5pm | Evening Prayer | Wesley House Chapel | Open to all |
| Monday 24 April at 7.45pm | Reformation and the end of Christendom: two visions - A public lecture by Professor Eamon Duffy, Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge | Wesley Church | Open to all. Retiring collection. |
| Tuesday 25 April at 9am | Morning Prayer | Wesley House Chapel | |
| Tuesday 25 April | Annual Methodist Research Conference | Gutteridge Building, Wesley House | Attendance by registration. Contact the Scholarship, Research and Innovation team of the Methodist Church in Britain |
| Wednesday 26 April | Wesley House Global Advisory Board meeting | ||
| Wednesday 26 April at 3.30pm | Cambridge Theological Federation Open Afternoon | Wesley House | Open to all Federation staff and students |
| Wednesday 26 April at 5pm | Evening Prayer | Wesley House Chapel | Open to all |
| Thursday 27 April | Rededication of College Holy Communion Formal Dinner | Wesley House | By invitation only |
| Friday 28 April at 10am | Morning Prayer | Wesley House Chapel | Open to all |
| Friday 28 April at 11am | Alumni open day Seminar with the President of Conference Buffet lunch Tours of the College | Wesley House | Ticketed. £15, including lunch. |
| Sunday 30 April at 4pm | Friends of Wesley House open afternoon | Wesley House | Open to all |
| Sunday 30 April at 6.30pm | Circuit service to celebrate the college's rededication | Wesley Church | Open to all |
Funded by the sale of the freehold of the site and by generous new donations, the college now offers:
- A new academic building (the Gutteridge Building) containing a Library, Archive, Dining Room, teaching rooms and the College office.
- A signature Gatehouse as the college’s main entrance from Jesus Lane.
- A new accommodation building (the Greenhalgh Building) with twelve single and three double rooms. All rooms are ensuite.
- A fully refurbished 1920s building containing two traditional Cambridge sets, each with sitting and bedrooms, seven single ensuite rooms, two of which have wheelchair accessible bathrooms, and three common kitchen/dining rooms
- The Asbury flat, fully refurbished through the generosity of over fifty US friends of Wesley House
- The 1929 Principal’s Lodge, refurbished.
- All 25 bedrooms have modern en-suite facilities and there is lift access to all floors.
The original 1930 Lamplough Chapel, with new heating and lighting, remains at the heart of the college, supporting the daily life of prayer for the residential community and inspiring the work of the college in its distance, local and dispersed modes.
