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Old Chapel, West Common, Harpenden

Built as an independent chapel but now a house, attractively sited between the Common and Rothamsted.

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Friends Meeting House, Southdown Road, Harpenden

By the north end of the Common just outside the town centre. The building dates from 1887 as the Harpenden Lecture Institute and Reading Club and became the Meeting House in 1933.

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Southdown Methodist Church, Harpenden

A much altered Primitive Methodist church of 1865, its current front and interior arrangements date from 1970.

    
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Reed Chapel (Former), Church Lane, Reed now housing

Converted and extended to form housing. The lower pictures show it was up for sale in March 2015 but looked well maintained. It was built in 1842 and enlarged in 1882.

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Congregational Chapel, High Street, Barkway

At the northern end of the fine High Street of this former coaching town. The chapel dates from 1884 and was designed by W.D. Church. It replaced a chapel about a quarter of a mile away in Royston Road. Its site is now Chapel Close but the burial ground to its east is still in existence.

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Congregational Church (former), High Street, Barley

Now converted to housing following closure in 1984. The building dates from 1841, it was built as an Independent chapel and passed to the Congregationalists in 1889.

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Cemetery Chapel, Melbourn Road, Royston

Just up the road from the Roman Catholic church. The chapel is boarded up and out of use.

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Congregational Church (former), Kneesworth Street, Royston

Now in use commercially, it was converted after falling out of use in the 1980s. It dates from 1791-92

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Methodist Church, Queens Road, Royston

Not far from the station, the church dates from 1887.

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Royston Evangelical Church

On the northern edge of the town near the Tesco superstore. This independent evangelical church dates from 1980.

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