Born in Elswick, Lancashire to wealthy Christian parents, William Bramwell, became an outstanding evangelistic preacher ministering in a number of Wesleyan circuits in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has been called a ‘man of prayer and power.' In Leeds during 1793, over five hundred were savingly converted from an ungodly way of life under Bramwell's preaching.
WILLIAM BRAMWELL'S OBITUARY:
"On Sunday the sixteenth of August, multitudes from all parts of the country repaired to Westgate Hill to witness the funeral ceremony of their beloved friend and pastor. Several aged people came from some of the villages beyond Sheffield, and others from places equally distant.
"Mr. Highfield preached in the area adjoining the chapel, to an overwhelming congregation, from Matthew, xxiv, 44, ‘Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.' The body was then committed to the silent grave, amidst the sincere lamentations of many thousands present. Immediately afterward, Mr. Nelson and Dr. Taft delivered very solemn and appropriate addresses to the deeply affected multitude.
"This solemn event was improved, the same Sunday evening, in all the three Methodist chapels in Leeds, and in many of the adjoining circuits; and on the fourteenth of September, a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. William Dawson, in the area in front of Mr. Sigston's school, and near the place where Mr. Bramwell died. Nearly ten thousand persons were assembled that afternoon, and listened with almost breathless attention to the admirable discourse of this engaging preacher."
A plain tablet, bearing a neat and unassuming inscription, has been erected to his memory in the burial ground at Westgate Hill.
READ MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE:
"Memoir of the Life and Ministry of William Bramwell," by James Sigston, published in 1836.
"The Sudden Death of Mr. William Bramwell, Lately an Itinerant Methodist Preacher: Improved in a Sermon Preached on that Occasion, Near the Place where He Died, in the Large Area in Front of Mr. Sigston's School, Queen-Square, Leeds, on the 6th Day of September, 1818" by William Dawson, Published in 1818.
WILLIAM BRAMWELL'S OBITUARY:
"On Sunday the sixteenth of August, multitudes from all parts of the country repaired to Westgate Hill to witness the funeral ceremony of their beloved friend and pastor. Several aged people came from some of the villages beyond Sheffield, and others from places equally distant.
"Mr. Highfield preached in the area adjoining the chapel, to an overwhelming congregation, from Matthew, xxiv, 44, ‘Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.' The body was then committed to the silent grave, amidst the sincere lamentations of many thousands present. Immediately afterward, Mr. Nelson and Dr. Taft delivered very solemn and appropriate addresses to the deeply affected multitude.
"This solemn event was improved, the same Sunday evening, in all the three Methodist chapels in Leeds, and in many of the adjoining circuits; and on the fourteenth of September, a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. William Dawson, in the area in front of Mr. Sigston's school, and near the place where Mr. Bramwell died. Nearly ten thousand persons were assembled that afternoon, and listened with almost breathless attention to the admirable discourse of this engaging preacher."
A plain tablet, bearing a neat and unassuming inscription, has been erected to his memory in the burial ground at Westgate Hill.
READ MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE:
"Memoir of the Life and Ministry of William Bramwell," by James Sigston, published in 1836.
"The Sudden Death of Mr. William Bramwell, Lately an Itinerant Methodist Preacher: Improved in a Sermon Preached on that Occasion, Near the Place where He Died, in the Large Area in Front of Mr. Sigston's School, Queen-Square, Leeds, on the 6th Day of September, 1818" by William Dawson, Published in 1818.
Born in Elswick, Lancashire to wealthy Christian parents, William Bramwell, became an outstanding evangelistic preacher ministering in a number of Wesleyan circuits in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has been called a ‘man of prayer and power.' In Leeds during 1793, over five hundred were savingly converted from an ungodly way of life under Bramwell's preaching.
WILLIAM BRAMWELL'S OBITUARY:
"On Sunday the sixteenth of August, multitudes from all parts of the country repaired to Westgate Hill to witness the funeral ceremony of their beloved friend and pastor. Several aged people came from some of the villages beyond Sheffield, and others from places equally distant.
"Mr. Highfield preached in the area adjoining the chapel, to an overwhelming congregation, from Matthew, xxiv, 44, ‘Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.' The body was then committed to the silent grave, amidst the sincere lamentations of many thousands present. Immediately afterward, Mr. Nelson and Dr. Taft delivered very solemn and appropriate addresses to the deeply affected multitude.
"This solemn event was improved, the same Sunday evening, in all the three Methodist chapels in Leeds, and in many of the adjoining circuits; and on the fourteenth of September, a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. William Dawson, in the area in front of Mr. Sigston's school, and near the place where Mr. Bramwell died. Nearly ten thousand persons were assembled that afternoon, and listened with almost breathless attention to the admirable discourse of this engaging preacher."
A plain tablet, bearing a neat and unassuming inscription, has been erected to his memory in the burial ground at Westgate Hill.
READ MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE:
"Memoir of the Life and Ministry of William Bramwell," by James Sigston, published in 1836.
"The Sudden Death of Mr. William Bramwell, Lately an Itinerant Methodist Preacher: Improved in a Sermon Preached on that Occasion, Near the Place where He Died, in the Large Area in Front of Mr. Sigston's School, Queen-Square, Leeds, on the 6th Day of September, 1818" by William Dawson, Published in 1818.
WILLIAM BRAMWELL'S OBITUARY:
"On Sunday the sixteenth of August, multitudes from all parts of the country repaired to Westgate Hill to witness the funeral ceremony of their beloved friend and pastor. Several aged people came from some of the villages beyond Sheffield, and others from places equally distant.
"Mr. Highfield preached in the area adjoining the chapel, to an overwhelming congregation, from Matthew, xxiv, 44, ‘Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.' The body was then committed to the silent grave, amidst the sincere lamentations of many thousands present. Immediately afterward, Mr. Nelson and Dr. Taft delivered very solemn and appropriate addresses to the deeply affected multitude.
"This solemn event was improved, the same Sunday evening, in all the three Methodist chapels in Leeds, and in many of the adjoining circuits; and on the fourteenth of September, a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. William Dawson, in the area in front of Mr. Sigston's school, and near the place where Mr. Bramwell died. Nearly ten thousand persons were assembled that afternoon, and listened with almost breathless attention to the admirable discourse of this engaging preacher."
A plain tablet, bearing a neat and unassuming inscription, has been erected to his memory in the burial ground at Westgate Hill.
READ MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE:
"Memoir of the Life and Ministry of William Bramwell," by James Sigston, published in 1836.
"The Sudden Death of Mr. William Bramwell, Lately an Itinerant Methodist Preacher: Improved in a Sermon Preached on that Occasion, Near the Place where He Died, in the Large Area in Front of Mr. Sigston's School, Queen-Square, Leeds, on the 6th Day of September, 1818" by William Dawson, Published in 1818.
Inscription
HERE LIETH WHAT WAS EARTHLY
Of the venerable
WILLIAM BRAMWELL,
A chosen, approved, and valiant minister of Christ,
Who died August 13, A. D. 1818, aged 59.
Stranger! when thou approachest this shrine
Consecrated to his memory
By an afflicted family.
May his ashes still proclaim, what he lived
To publish,
‘Prepare to meet thy God.' "
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