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All Saints, Kitsbury, Berkhamsted

In the east of the town, stands this large red brick church of 1905 designed by C.H. and N.A. Rew. A picture in the church shows the ambitious plans for twin west towers that was never executed. In 1975-80 the church became shared with the Methodists, a formal Anglican/Methodist partnership being established in 1993 . In 1975 its orientation was reversed when the two western bays were converted to a hall and a new western wall built to designs by Percy Mark. The old chancel in the apse became a lady chapel in 2005. The font comes from St Peter’s and dates from 1662.

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St Michael and All Angels, Sunnyside, Berkhamsted

A north eastern suburb of Berkhamsted. The church was built in a rather conservative style in 1908-09 by Philip Mainwaring Johnston replacing a mission church of the 1880s. In recent years new rooms have been added to the north and the interior has been reordered in modern evangelical style with the focus on the north wall with the chancel becoming a chapel.

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All Saints (former) Picotts End

A bypassed village immediately north of Hemel Hempstead, it gained its church in 1907 but it was made redundant in the mid 1960s and is now housing.

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St John the Evangelist, Bourne End

On its own west of the A41 between Boxmoor and Berkhamsted, in some older works this building is called Broadway Chapel. It is a Gilbert Scott church of 1853-55. The prominent western hall extension is by Nick Wood of Blackwood Architects of Aylesbury and dates from 2007. he chancel decoration is from 1889-91 and was designed by local architect Charles Rew. Three windows (one hidden behind the reredos) ware the first designs by Alfred Bell and made by Powell’s. However the two visible ones were stolen in 2001 and replaced by replicas made by Chapel Studios in 2005.

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Church of the Ascension, Bedmond

A well looked after tin church of 1880 in this village over the M25 from Abbotts Langley.

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St Julian, Cotton Mill, St Albans

The church for the Cotton Mill Estate on the south-eastern edge of St Albans. It is a hall church of 1956, the worship area partitioned off from the hall area. There are some recent rooms added in 2010.

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St Paul, Hunton Bridge (Langleybury)

By the main road between Watford and Kings Langley in a village known as both Langleybury and Hunton Bridge. It is a church by Henry Woodyer dating from 1863-64, the  main furnishings were also designed by Woodyer, including the marble font with its architectural cover and the carved chancel arch.

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St John Fisher, Redbourn (Roman Catholic)

At the northern end of the town, a church of 1965 by Gordon and Gordon Associates.

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Great St Mary, Sawbridgeworth

In a large churchyard between the small town centre and the railway station. A mainly 14th century church with restorations of 1845, 1849 and 1856-59 by G.E.Pritchett.

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St Alban Liberal Catholic Church, Norton Way South/Meadow Way, Letchworth

The first church to be built in Letchworth, dating from 1924. The Liberal catholic church uses many elements of Catholic worship but has no organisational connection with the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches. The small church sits in suburbia in very well kept grounds.

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