St Botolph, Shenleybury (former)
The old church of Shenley, well north and below the village. It is now a private house, although most of the graveyard is now a large cemetery. It was made redundant in 1972. It is part of a larger 15th century building, rebuilt after a fire in 1753. Some of the glass was moved to the current church in the village. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s tomb is inaccessible in the private part of the churchyard.
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St Thomas More, Welham Green (Roman Catholic)
Right on the edge of Welham Green, a commuter settlement, it is a chapel of ease to Marychurch in Hatfield. It was designed by T.J. Denny and built in 1963 as a church hall but the church has never been built.
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Our Lady, St Mary of Walsingham, London Colney (Roman Catholic)
A rather forbidding church of 1959 just off the main village road. It was designed by David Stokes
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All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney
Built as an Anglican convent in 1899 by Leonard Stokes, the chapel was added (eastern 3 bays) by Sir Ninian Comper in 1927 and completed by Sebastian Comper in 1964. It became a Roman catholic pastoral centre in 1973 but closed in 2011. From spring 2013 the buildings are used by Bell an English Language College. In September 2014 the college door has a sign saying chapel and bookshop are closed. There is now some sort of scaffolding across the tracery of many of the chapel windows. The site is still signed as the Pastoral Centre and there is still open access to the grounds.
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Our Lady and Saint Vincent, Potters Bar (Roman catholic)
Designed by Francis Weal and Partners and built in 2003-05 to replace two earlier churches in the town. The glass is by Alex Le Rossignol.
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St Mark, Colney Heath
Part of the early 19th century fashion for neo Norman buildings (1845). In 2008-09 the north wall was cut into and a new entrance area and associated rooms integrated into the building. The interior was reordered with an extended balcony , relocated organ and new seating.
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St Paul, Highfield, Hemel Hempstead
A combined hall and church in the north east of the town alonngside the Nicky Line railway walk. It dates from the 1960s.
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St Luke, Cell Barnes Lane, St Albans
A church in the eastern suburbs of St Albans, built in 1964 and designed by E.F. Starling. It underwent a major refurbishment during 2013 when the interior was stripped out and refitted.
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St Mary the Virgin, Walkern
In a rural setting on the eastern edge of this large village just east of Stevenage. Inside are, rare for the county, Saxon remains in the wall through which the south arcade is punched with an in situ carving above. Also in the south aisle is a Purbeck marble knight of the mid 13th century. The chancel was rebuilt by Henry Woodyer in 1877-78 and H.R. Gough restored the church in 1882, his are the two large arches separating the north chancel chapel from the chancel.
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St Andrew and St Mary, Watton at Stone
Attractively sited at Watton Green on the south side of this large village between Hertford and Stevenage. For many years locked outside services, but a change of policy, this month means that it is generally open daily 10-3. It’s a large building for a Herts village church. It is basically 15th century with a restoration in 1851 by Joseph Clarke. The north chapel is 16th century for the family inhabiting nearby Woodhall Park, so it is now called the Abel-Smith chapel, unfortunately, the gates into it are locked so pictures have to be taken at an angle, they are near the end of this set. There is a room over the north porch which is accessible from a narrow staircase, again near the end of this step. There are many ledger slabs that the 18th-century pews and choir stalls were randomly built over in some cases.
Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 