Caldicott Chapel (former), Highbury Road, Hitchin
This was the chapel for Caldicott Preparatory School which moved away from Hitchin in 1938. The site was then used by the war Department and after that various government departments and then it became a Youth centre that closed in 1984. It is on the Hitchin local list and that noted in 2011 as “Distinct signs of lack of maintenance”. It is now a private house at the bottom of Highbury Road , just behind the Walsworth Baptist church.
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Weslyan Church (former), Church Street, Ashwell
Now a house at 1 Church Lane. It was built in 1833 but superseded by a now demolished (1979) new chapel in 1880.
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Chapel/Mission Hall, Burnham Green (now Village Hall)
That this was a school built in 1843 and is now the village hall and post office is not in dispute, as is the fact that it has had a religious use. English Heritage’s inventory of meeting houses suggest it became a Wesleyan Chapel, the Village Hall’s website states that it was used as a mission church after the school’s closure in 1929 before being purchased from St Albans diocese to be the village hall.
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Congregational Church (former), High Street, Elstree
Just up the road from the parish church. Dating from 1876, it closed around 2010 and is now converted to housing.
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Wesleyan Chapel (former), Ickleford
There is a brief listing in English Heritages’s inventory which lists a chapel of 1850 in Ickleford. I think this is it as it is along a footpath called Chapel Walk west of the Arlesey Road at the correct grid reference. It closed in 1978 and was sold in 1979 and is now somewhat altered as housing.
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Salvation Army (former), Florence Road, Hitchin
Built in 1888, but out of use during the 1950s, when it became used by a removal company. It was converted to flats in the late 1990s.
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Christchurch (Peartree) Baptist, Tewin Road, Welwyn Garden City
A converted office building in the industrial zone of the town. It was formerly Indigo Court and was opened as a replacement for the previous office conversion in Broadwater Road in January 2016.
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Old Meeting House (former), Lower Dagnall Street, St Albans
Built in 1697-98 for Presbyterians and used by a variety of groups subsequently. It fell out of religious use in 1895 and now, much altered and extended, is used as offices and flats.
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Friends Meeting House (former), Brand Street, Hitchin
Across the road from its burial ground, where the current Meeting House now stands. It has been extended and converted into local government/NHS offices but appears to be empty currently (March 2016). It was designed by Samuel Whitfield Dawkes in 1840.
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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 