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Dagnall Street Baptist Church, St Albans

Just off the town centre, a large building of 1884-85. The interior accessible between 10 and 2 via the associated Cross Street Centre. It was designed by  Morton M. Glover.

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Church website

 

Walsworth Road Baptist Church, Hitchin

On the road from the station to the town centre. A large extended complex around a 19th century gothic chapel. The chapel is of 1875-76 and was designed by J. Wallis Chapman.

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Church website

 

High Street Methodist Church, Harpenden

As the name suggests right in the centre of town on the High Street and open most mornings and all day Friday as there is a cafe in the hall which is in the same complex. It was built in 1929 to designs by A. Brace replacing two older churches.

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Church website

Wood End Congregational Chapel (Former)

In a hamlet of Ardeley. Built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1862, since the 1970s it has become one private property with the timber-framed farm house to its rear.

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Listed building details

Methodist Church, High St, Watton at Stone

On the main street through the village. Built in 1891 with a matching hall extension at the rear. A meditation garden featuring the mural below has been added on one side.

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Church website

St Hugh, Cockernhoe

Overlooking the large green in this village just east of Luton. This is an iron church built in 1904. One side has been updated with uPVC windows but the rest retains wooden windows. Views in are not really possible as the windows have marbled glass. It is only used for occasional public services such as at Easter and Christmas and by the CoE village school. There is no signboard outside but the churchyard is well tended, with quite a number of small iron grave markers from the 1920s to 1950s. It forms part of the parish of St Francis, Luton rather than a Hertfordshire parish.

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A church near you entry

St Martha, Chapel Lane, Tring (former) now Methodist

An unfinished building constructed on the south west side of Tring as a chapel of ease to St Peter and St Paul, the parish church. The flint chancel is attributed to Carpenter and Ingelow and dates from around 1880. The wooden section dates from the early twentieth century and the porch from the 1960s. It began to be used by the Methodists, as a replacement for their chapel in the 1970s and was purchased in 2002.

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Church website

Listed building details

St Mark, Redhall Lane, Chandler’s Cross (former)

A tin tabernacle erected in 1903 and in use until 1978 as a Mission church. First for All Saints, Croxley Green and then from 1964 Chipperfield parish. It closed in 1978 and was sold into private hands in 1981 and is now a large shed in the front garden of a house. It is locally listed by Three Rivers Council. It could have been yours (with a 5 bed house) for offers in excess of £1 million (September 2014). I Passed by in July 2016 and it has had a facelift.

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Local Listed building details

Soul Survivor Church, Greycaine Road, Watford

An evangelical church in light industrial/warehouse units near Watford North Station. The church was founded in 1991 and is part of the Church of England according to its website, despite not being listed in the Anglican A church near you directory.

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Church website

St Theresa, Batterdale, Old Hatfield (Roman Catholic) – now Marychurch Church Hall

Now serving as a hall for Marychurch, this church was built to serve Old Hatfield in 1929-30.

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Church website