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Mount Zion Chapel (former), Standhill Road, Hitchin
Build for Particular Baptists in 1859. The local list shows it in a poor state and used as a motor store in 2011. It is now a house down a private lane off Standhill Road. It can just be seen from Standhill Road or by climbing the rough steps up to its entrance front on Hitchin Hill.
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Caldicott Chapel (former), Highbury Road, Hitchin
This was the chapel for Caldicott Preparatory School which moved away from Hitchin in 1938. The site was then used by the war Department and after that various government departments and then it became a Youth centre that closed in 1984. It is on the Hitchin local list and that noted in 2011 as “Distinct signs of lack of maintenance”. It is now a private house at the bottom of Highbury Road , just behind the Walsworth Baptist church.
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Salvation Army (former), Florence Road, Hitchin
Built in 1888, but out of use during the 1950s, when it became used by a removal company. It was converted to flats in the late 1990s.
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Friends Meeting House (former), Brand Street, Hitchin
Across the road from its burial ground, where the current Meeting House now stands. It has been extended and converted into local government/NHS offices but appears to be empty currently (March 2016). It was designed by Samuel Whitfield Dawkes in 1840.
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Cemetery, St John’s Road, Hitchin
Two chapels one for Anglicans and one for Dissenters at right angles to each other. The cemetery and presumably the chapels date from 1857.
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Hitchin Christian Centre, Bedford Road, Hitchin
Part of the pentecostal group Church Of God. Their building is a modern office block.
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Upper Tilehouse Street Baptist Chapel, Hitchin
Now separated from the town centre by major roads, this is a church of 1844, by John Davies, standing in a large burial ground.
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Friends Meeting House, Paynes Park, Hitchin
On the northern edge of the town centre. The building is raised above the burial ground. It was designed by Paul Mauger and built in 1958.
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Christchurch, Bedford Road, Hitchin (Methodist and United Reformed)
Just north of the town centre it was built in 1968-69 to replace the former Methodist churches at Brand Street and Nightingale Road and Queen Street Congregational church. The alignment of the interior has been switched round by 90 degrees with ancillary buildings added on the north side in 2001, designed by Lewis Patten.
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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 