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Heath Lane Cemetery Chapels, Hemel Hempstead

On a hilltop overlooking the town, there are two disused chapels facing each other. One was Anglican and the other non conformist.  They are similar but one has lancets at the entrance end and a gable cross, the other no crosses but cross-shaped windows at the entrance end. The cemetery dates from 1878.

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Cemetery website

Methodist Church, Prestwick Road, South Oxhey

On the main road near Carpenter’s Park Station. The church of 1952 was replaced by this building completed in 2013.

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Church website

St Martin’s United Reformed Church, Muirfield Road, South Oxhey

The building of 1953 was replaced in 1989, but is now all but disused as a church. The building is principally used by the Community Learning Partnership with the congregation now sharing St John’s URC, Northwood.

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Church website

Baptist Church, Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey

A new worship space was added after 2009 to the existing 1950s building.

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Church website

Baptist Church, Park Avenue, North Bushey

A small suburban hall/church of the 1960s.

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Church website

Brethren’s Meeting Room, Bosanquet Road/Salisbury Road, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, now demolished

Just down the road from the Rye Park Riverside Elim church, a windowless modern hall. The site is subject to a planning application, so far refused for a housing development (Dec 2018). It has now been replaced (November 2022) by housing.

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Brethren’s Meeting Room, Halfhide Lane, Turnford

Hidden behind high fences and hedges opposite the Marriott Hotel.

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Chapel (former), Whempstead

A former chapel, now extended and concerted into a house. It is actually a little way north of the small hamlet itself and not easily visible from the road.

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Chapel (former), Nasty, Great Munden

Nasty is one of the hamlets making up Great Munden. This was a tin tabernacle that has subsequently been re-clad and turned over to domestic use.

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West Watford Free Church (Baptist), Tolpits Lane, Watford

On the south side of Watford in the Holywell Estate, a church of 1957.

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Church website