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Rickmansworth Cemetery Chapel, Old Chorleywood Road

This cemetery opened in 1856 not far north of the town centre. The chapel has been sold for residential use.

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Chapel Planning Application

Royal Masonic School for Girls Chapel, Chorleywood Road, Rickmansworth

Built 1928-33 and designed by John L. Denman. It is close to the road and the exterior can be viewed from a footpath between the road and the school boundary fence.

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School Chapel website

Listed building details

Methodist Church, Berry Lane, Mill End

On the edge of a large green, it dates from the 1960s.

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Church website

Baptist Church, Field Way, Mill End

Just off the main road through this western suburb of Rickmansworth. It was built in 1960-61, replacing an 1823 chapel, and extended in 1998 and 2013

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Church website

Primitive Methodist Church (former), Primrose Lane, Aldenham

Some way east of the village at Four Want Ways near the hamlet of Round Bush and almost on its own. It was built in 1887, closed in 1965 and was used as a Scout Hall before conversion to a house in 1983.

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My Primitative Methodist website

United Free Church (Methodist/United Reformed Church), Station Road, Radlett

A short way off the High Street stand this originally Methodist church of 1937-38. It became a united church in 1980 when the United Reformed Church congregation left their church on Watling Street. That building is now the Radlett Reform Synagogue.

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Church website

Methodist Church, London Road, Shenley

Originally the parish workhouse built in 1800, it was converted into a chapel in 1840.

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Church on the Village website

The Old Chapel, Porters Park Drive, Shenley Park

The former inter-denominational chapel of the former Shenley Mental Hospital that closed in 1998. Its huge site is now covered by modern housing and a pleasant park at whose north edge sits this large building of 1938. The architects were W.T. Curtis and D. Robertson. It is now used as a community hall.

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Website

Alexander Church, Alexander Road, London Colney

On a road parallel to the High Street. This is an independent evangelical church whose building dates from 1958.

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Church website

Baptist Church, Kings Road, London Colney

A short way off the northern end of the High Street sits this building of 1960 which replaced a chapel of 1875 that was on the High Street itself.

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Church website