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Christ Church United Reformed Church, St Albans Road East, Hatfield

A short way east of the town centre, a church of 1934.

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Church website

 

Church on the Rock, French Horn Lane, Hatfield

An independent church meeting in the town centre in the Lord William Cecil Memorial Hall.

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Oxlease Methodist Church, Woods Avenue, Hatfield

A suburban church of 1961 by George Baines & Syborn.

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United Church (Methodist/URC) (former), Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead

Disused from 2012 and subject to failed planning applications to replace it with a hall, church and housing it stood stripped just south of the village centre. It was built in 1876. In  April 2022 it was  being converted into a gym, windows have been repaired and the inside contains exercise equipment. The gym opened in September 2022 (see latest images at end of post).

April 2015

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April 2022

October 2022

Methodist Church, Lower Luton Road, Batford, Harpenden

On the main road through Batford which is effectively an eastern suburb of Harpenden. The church was built in 1904-05 to designs by Anscombe and Franklin.

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Harpenden Local History website on the church

Crabtree Church, Crabtree Lane, Harpenden

An independent evangelical church in the eastern suburbs of the town.

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United Reformed Church, Vaughan Road, Harpenden

Just up the road from Christ Church, this is a Congregational Church building of 1896-97 that replaced the Independent Chapel in Amenbury Road on the other side of the town centre. The architect was Arthur Anscombe.

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Christ Church, Vaughan Road, Harpenden

An independent evangelical church just down the hill from the United Reformed Church in the town centre. Many of their services are actually held in the URC building.

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Church website

Independent Chapel (former), Amenbury Lane, Harpenden

Just above Leyton Green and now the offices of a financial services company. It was built in 1840 and became a Congregational chapel in 1868 but was replaced by the current United Reformed Church in 1897 and sold after short use as a Sunday school in 1904.

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Salvation Army, Leyton Green, Harpenden

Just off the town centre at the top of Leyton Green. The current building dates from the 1960s.

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