Protestant Methodists

They left the Methodist conference in 1827 in protest at the installation of an organ in Brunswick Chapel in Leeds.

This grew into a wider dispute around the style of government of the conference, though it continued to be known as the Leeds Organ Dispute.

The Protestant Methodists constituted themselves as a separate body in 1828.

In 1836, the group joined the Wesleyan Association, by which time they consisted of several thousand members, mostly in Leeds.

[1] Through subsequent mergers, the Wesleyan Association became part of the United Methodist Church in 1907 and in 1932 became part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.