St Francis of Assisi, Welwyn Garden City
The city centre parish church. Designed by Lewis de Soissons in 1934-35.
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St John the Evangelist, High Cross
Built in 1846 designed by Anthony Salvin, with the tower added in 1906 by C. Ford Whitlock. Interesting glass by Selwyn Image (West), Kempe (East) and Helen Coombe made by Powells in the nave south wall.
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St Peter, London Colney
Just off the main road facing onto the attractive riverside, a neo Norman church of 1825 by George Smith. The interior shots are taken through two layers of glass door as the church is normally locked, apologies for the reflections.
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King Charles the Martyr, Potters Bar
Formerly in South Mimms parish. The church was built in 1939-41 and designed by Eden and Marchant.
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St Mary the Virgin and All Saints, Potters Bar
Just off the old main street of the town. The church is by J.S.Alder (1914) but the west end was completed by Laurence King in 1967.
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Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St Albans
Hertfordshire’s only cathedral was raised to this status in 1877. St Albans’ Abbey was dissolved in the reformation but the great church had remained as a parish church. The longest nave in England. The building was “restored” by Lord Grimthorpe from 1879 in an idiosyncratic style but much Norman and medieval work remains. There are many medieval wall paintings in the nave. The Shrine of St Alban between the choir and Lady Chapel has been restored.
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Oxhey Chapel, Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey
In the centre of a large housing estate. Built in 1612 and now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It is right next to All Saints church from which the key can be obtained.
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St Paul, Pixmore Way, Letchworth
An unfinished church of 1923-24 designed by A.H. Ryan-Tennyson. The three western nave bays were built at that time, with a further two bays and the transepts added by E.R.D. Selway in 1928-31. The same architect created a north aisle by extending the north transect in 1938-40. It stands on a prominent corner and should have had a tower and fully finished south aisle.
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St Anne (former), Allens Green
A hamlet near Sawbridgeworth among windswept hedgeless fields. The small mission church of 1863 by G.E. Pritchett was converted to a house in 2012. The top left view is pre conversion, all the others are post conversion.
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St Edmund of Canterbury and English Martyrs, Old Hall Green (Roman Catholic)
In the countryside behind St Edmund’s College near Puckeridge. The architect was Arthur Young and it dates from 1911. It replaced a church of 1818 attached to a farmhouse called “Old Hall” both of which exist at the east end of the church. The old church (the white building below) is now used by St Edmund’s College as a gym.
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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 