Ashlyns School Chapel, Chesham Road, Berkhamsted
The Foundling School moved out from central London to Redhill, Surrey in 1925 while a new campus high above the south side of Berkhamsted was built. This was designed by John Mortimer Sheppard and completed in 1935. Subsequently in 1951 this became a state secondary school – Ashlyns. The chapel is at the centre of the main school range, about 100 metres off the public road.
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Quaker Burial Ground (Former), Port Hill, Hertford
On the opposite side of the town centre to the Meeting House. This plot of land is surrounded by high walls and locked gates. There are no markers left and the area has returned to a scrub of trees and rank weeds at the bottom of Port Hill next to what was The Oaks veterinary surgery and previously The Reindeer pub. The land was acquired in 1661, but sold in the early 1970s and the headstones relocated to the garden behind the Meeting House.
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Chapel, Tring Cemetery, Aylesbury Road
At the western edge of the town, a small kept cemetery opened in 1894. The chapel is normally open.
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St Thomas’ Mission Hall, Green Tye
Built in 1909 as an Anglican Mission hall from nearby St Thomas at Perry Green. Long used for many purposes, it is now the village hall.
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Chapel, Lockers School, Lockers Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead
A large preparatory school high above the town centre near the cemetery. The chapel is alongside the road and so visible from outside the school grounds. The school was built in 1874 and designed by Sidney Scott
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City of David, Unit 3 & 4 The Plaza, Town Square, Stevenage (Redeemed Christian Church of God)
This is the central Stevenage location for the RCCG. They occupy some commercial space next to Wetherspoons and the Post Office pubs. The earlier pictures are from 2017, the final two with the images on the glass are from December 2019.
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Wesleyan Chapel (former), West Street, Lilley now the Old Chapel
Alongside a footpath off West Street, this building now looks much more like a modern house than a chapel. Only the shadow of arched windows and doors in the gable end give it away. It opened in 1837 and closed in 1954 and was converted to housing.
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Chapel, Hockerill Anglo-European College, Dunmow Road, Bishop’s Stortford
Built as a Church of England Training college in 1852 by Joseph Clarke. The site was a boarding school before its present status as a boarding and day school academy. The chapel of 1878 (middle gable) is just visible from the road, but is hidden by other buildings from the footpath that skirts the school site.
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Mission Hall (former), Patmore Heath
Hidden away at the junction of two footpaths, one of which is called Itch Lane, just off the south-western corner of Patmore Heath. It was built around 1885 as a non denominational hall at the instigation of local shop keeper and Primitive Methodist John Caton. However the website My Primitive Methodists suggest it was built around 1870 passing to Congregationalists some time before 1950 before closing in the 1950s but with no sources. The building is currently derelict (February 2017) and was subject to a planning application in December 2016 to convert it to housing which was refused. Re-visited in April 2021 it was in much the same condition as 4 years earlier as you can see in this video I have made.
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Historical appraisal from East Herts Council Planning Application documents
Brethren’s Meeting Room, Ermine Street, Colliers End
Up a short drive off Ermine Street between Colliers End and St Edmund’s College. This was a bungalow that was adapted, under temporary planning permission in 2012, into a meeting room with car parking. There is now (January 2017) a planning application in to demolish this building and build a new hall on another part of the surrounding field. The new building is nearer the road, but surrounded by security fencing and completely unsigned.
Jan 2017
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May 2022
Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 