This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or repair of Wesleyan chapels necessary, or occurred because of these processes, it considers what maintenance and repair reveal about everyday practices and experiences within these communities. This article’s approach allows it to draw conclusions about individuals’ personal and mundane engagements with Wesleyanism in London during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As such, it overcomes some of the problems that historians interested in the everyday have traditionally faced as a result of the shortage of surviving personal testimonies about the everyday nature of church attendance during this period. Using Wesleyan chapels from London’s northern suburbs and East End as case studies, this article particularly focuses on the repair and maintenance of organs and chapel interiors. It uses these examples to reflect on the practicalities of everyday life in Wesleyan communities, demonstrating how considering moments of repair and maintenance highlights the (sometimes fraught) interrelationships between the spiritual, social, and practical priorities of Wesleyan communities.

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成为教堂和日常会众：伦敦卫斯理教堂的修复和维护如何说明他们社区的日常实践和经验（1851-1932）

本文使用有关维护和维修的档案参考资料，将 19 世纪和 20 世纪早期的卫斯理教堂及其材料内容视为“成为”事物。反思使卫斯理教堂的维护或修理变得必要或因这些过程而发生的物质变化，它考虑了维护和修理揭示了这些社区内日常实践和经验的内容。本文的方法使其能够得出关于个人在 19 世纪和 20 世纪初期在伦敦与卫斯理教的个人和世俗交往的结论。因此，它克服了对日常生活感兴趣的历史学家传统上面临的一些问题，因为在此期间缺乏关于教堂出席日常性质的个人见证。本文以伦敦北郊和东区的卫斯理教堂为案例研究，特别关注器官和教堂内部的维修和保养。它使用这些例子来反思卫斯理社区日常生活的实用性，展示了考虑维修和维护的时刻如何突出卫斯理社区的精神、社会和实践优先事项之间的（有时是令人担忧的）相互关系。本文特别关注器官和教堂内部的维修和保养。它使用这些例子来反思卫斯理社区日常生活的实用性，展示了考虑维修和维护的时刻如何突出卫斯理社区的精神、社会和实际优先事项之间的（有时是令人担忧的）相互关系。本文特别关注器官和教堂内部的维修和保养。它使用这些例子来反思卫斯理社区日常生活的实用性，展示了考虑维修和维护的时刻如何突出卫斯理社区的精神、社会和实际优先事项之间的（有时是令人担忧的）相互关系。