United Reformed Church, Vaughan Road, Harpenden
Just up the road from Christ Church, this is a Congregational Church building of 1896-97 that replaced the Independent Chapel in Amenbury Road on the other side of the town centre. The architect was Arthur Anscombe.
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Christ Church, Vaughan Road, Harpenden
An independent evangelical church just down the hill from the United Reformed Church in the town centre. Many of their services are actually held in the URC building.
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Independent Chapel (former), Amenbury Lane, Harpenden
Just above Leyton Green and now the offices of a financial services company. It was built in 1840 and became a Congregational chapel in 1868 but was replaced by the current United Reformed Church in 1897 and sold after short use as a Sunday school in 1904.
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Salvation Army, Leyton Green, Harpenden
Just off the town centre at the top of Leyton Green. The current building dates from the 1960s.
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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.
2015
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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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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 