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Society of Friends, Church Road, Watford

Up the road from St Andrew’s church. The current building dates from 2006.

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Trinity Methodist, Whippendell Road/Harwoods Road, Watford

In West Watford a church of 1937 by George Baines & Sons.

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North Watford Methodist Church, The Harebreaks, Watford

Prominently sited at a road junction along the St Albans Road in North Watford. It dates from 1927-28 and was designed by Arthur Brocklehurst and (according to the local listing but not the foundation plaque) Charles Stanley Peach .

 
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Baptist Church (Former), Leavesden Road, Watford

The church was founded in 1895 and the original church is now used as a hall (shown at the end of this set of images) next to the current church building of 1909 designed by George Baines and Son. The church closed at Christmas 2021 and is now (April 2022) up for sale.

  
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Garston Community Church, St Albans Road, Garston, Watford

An independent church just south of Garston shops on the main road.

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Church of the Nazarene, Balmoral Road, Watford

A small hall built in 1924, in a turning just off the St Albans Road.

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Church of the Nazarene, The Brow, Woodside, Watford

A community complex in the Woodside estate. The worship area is one corner of the building but can be opened out into the hall area, it dates from 1986 and replaced an area behind it, now used as a small hall.

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Salvation Army, St Albans Road, Watford

On the main road into North Watford, it dates from the 1930s.

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Goldings Chapel (former), near Waterford

The chapel of Goldings (a house by William Devey 1870) which is a now a private house. The chapel dates from 1923 and was designed by Walter Godfrey of Wratten and Godfrey. It was built when the house became Barnado’s William Baker Technical School. In 1969 Herts County Council moved into the house and the chapel became a sports hall. The council moved out in 1999 and the chapel became part of a development of new housing around the house. In 2009 it was sold for £3.4 million. It can be seen from two public footpaths but it is not a good view.

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Herts International Church, Mundells, Welwyn Garden City (Salvation for the Nations)

Based in a large office building in the industrial area east of the town centre.

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