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International Christian Fellowship, Manor Way, Borehamwood

Alongside the Manor Way shopping parade on the south side of Borehamwood.

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St Paul’s Lutheran, St Paul’s Close, Borehamwood

On the southern edge of Borehamwood, a modern building for the only Lutheran church in the county.

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Trinity Church (URC/Methodist), Park Lane, Knebworth

Built as a Congregational Chapel in 1887, it became part of the United Reformed Church in 1972 and amalgamated with the Methodist church in 1996.

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Welwyn Evangelical Church, Fulling Mill Lane

On a spacious site on the northern edge of Welwyn. The post war modern building used for worship is at right angles to the now subdivided older chapel. It was formerly called Bethel Chapel.

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Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel, Mimram Walk, Welwyn

Well hidden on a cramped site along a pedestrian only alleyway in the town centre. It dates from 1834.

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Chapel (former), 158 High Street, Codicote

Used as a commercial photographic studio since 1986.

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Chapel, Harmer Green

This was a private chapel of ease to Welwyn built in the mid 19th century. It was converted to a house and greatly extended in the early 1970s.

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Baptist Chapel (former), Datchworth Green

At the western end of the Green, it was built in 1892 and extended in 1897. Closure came in 1976 and from 1978 it  has been by a model railway club, the Stevenage and District Model Railway Club’s  layouts filling its interior.

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Chapel of the Annuciation (former), Furneux Pelham (Roman Catholic)

A 16th century barn at Tinker’s hall whose upper floor was transformed into a Roman Catholic chapel in the 1940s when Neville and Florence Lake, owners of the Rayments brewery in the village converted to Roman Catholicism and decided they wanted their own chapel. It was served by priests from surrounding parishes until its closure in July 2013. The furnishings and vestments that had been collected from a variety of sources were dispersed after closure.

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YouTube video of the church from 2011

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Chapels, Cemetery, Dark Lane, Cheshunt

A pair of chapels with a common tower (1855) in this cemetery in the Bury Green area of western Cheshunt. Still in use and restored in 2015-2016 (see pictures with scaffolding).

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