Finsbury Chapel

Interior of Finsbury Chapel, showing the congregation listening to a sermon by the Rev Alexander Fletcher, to whom this plate is inscribed by the engraver.

Alexander Fletcher (1787-1860) was a Scottish kirk minister and later an Independent Congregationalist divine in England. He founded the Finsbury Chapel (originally known as Fletcher's Chapel) in 1825. He authored numerous devotional works and was a pioneer of preaching to audiences of children and attracting large crowds of young people to nonconformist chapels through specially designed events and services as well as Sunday Schools. He was a supporter of missionary work and for the abolition of slavery in the United States.