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Kingswood Baptist, North Approach, Watford (former)

A small church serving north watford. It opened in 1950 and closed in September 2015.

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Church website

Reeds Chapel, Orphanage Road, Watford

This is the chapel, now converted into housing, of the former London Orphan Asylum School. It is on the east side of Watford Junction station. It was designed by Henry Dawson and built in 1871. The school left Watford in 1939 and the buildings of the school, which are also now housing, were used as offices. Conversion to housing happened in the 1980s.

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Listed building details

Brethren’s Meeting Room, 211 Horseshoe Lane, Watford

A converted and extended 1930s bungalow on the north side of Watford.

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Stanborough Park Seventh Day Adventist, St Albans Road, Watford

The church dates from 1927-28 and was designed by Broad and Patey.  It was extended and galleries added in 1962. The Stanborough Centre with meeting rooms was added in 2001 and the church was extended and refurbished between July 2014 and October 2015.

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Church website

Local Listing Details

Christchurch (Peartree) Baptist (former), Broadwater Road, Welwyn Garden City

A branch of the Baptist church in Parkway, This has been based in an ex Highways Agency building on the eastern side of the railway since 2012. It was replaced in January 2016 by a new site at a former office building at Indigo Court in Tewin Road.

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Church website

Congregational Church, Hadham Cross, Much Hadham

On the main road through this large east Hertfordshire village. It dates from 1872-1874 and designed by Habershon & Brock, the hall behind and to the side is a very similar building.

Methodist Church, Northridge Way, Hemel Hempstead

In suburban Hemel Hempstead. Opened in 2015, this church replaced a town centre building demolished in 2014 and an older building on this site. The worship area is at one end as part of a larger development of ancillary rooms by Life Build Solutions.

Church website

Harwood Park Crematorium, Watton Road, Stevenage

Just beyond the southern edge of Stevenage. A modern crematorium privately owned by Austin’s undertakers. There is a non denominational chapel in the complex.

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Website

Wesleyan Chapel (former), Damask Green, Weston

Close to the village centre, unlike the parish church. It dates from 1861.

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Methodist Church (Former), The Green, Kimpton

Attractively sited at the corner of a green close to the parish church. It was taken out of use in around 2007 and converted, along with the hall, into housing in 2010. The church dates from 1870.

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