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Chapel (former), Whempstead

A former chapel, now extended and concerted into a house. It is actually a little way north of the small hamlet itself and not easily visible from the road.

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Chapel (former), Nasty, Great Munden

Nasty is one of the hamlets making up Great Munden. This was a tin tabernacle that has subsequently been re-clad and turned over to domestic use.

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Kingswood Baptist, North Approach, Watford (former)

A small church serving north watford. It opened in 1950 and closed in September 2015.

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Church website

Reeds Chapel, Orphanage Road, Watford

This is the chapel, now converted into housing, of the former London Orphan Asylum School. It is on the east side of Watford Junction station. It was designed by Henry Dawson and built in 1871. The school left Watford in 1939 and the buildings of the school, which are also now housing, were used as offices. Conversion to housing happened in the 1980s.

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Listed building details

Wesleyan Chapel (former), Damask Green, Weston

Close to the village centre, unlike the parish church. It dates from 1861.

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Methodist Church (Former), The Green, Kimpton

Attractively sited at the corner of a green close to the parish church. It was taken out of use in around 2007 and converted, along with the hall, into housing in 2010. The church dates from 1870.

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Brethren’s Meeting Room (Former), Duke Street, Hoddesdon now demolished and replaced by housing

A typical small unadorned Brethren Hall north of the town centre. It closed in 2018 and was used as offices by Herts Building Solutions. By November 2021 it has been replaced by a small housing development.

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Primitive Methodist Chapel (Former), Sopwell Lane, St Albans

Built in 1844 but vacated in 1875, when it passed into use by the Dagnall Street Baptist Church. From 1934 -2003 it was used by the St Albans Band for rehearsals, hence the name given to the house into which it was converted in 2012.

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My Prinitive Methodist website

Congregational Chapel (former), Chapel Lane, Hadham Ford

Hadham Ford is a southern outlier of Little Hadham. The chapel appears to have been disused for a number of years (Google streetview shows it so in 2009 judging by the state of the now gone notice board). The adjacent hall is now a private house. The chapel was built 1874-75 and designed by John Sulman who went on to be a prominent architect in Australia. An application for conversion to a house was made in January 2017.

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Further Information

Chapel, Leavesden Hospital, Mallard Road, Abbots langley

The chapel of a large former mental hospital whose site is now redeveloped as housing and a park. It is now used by DEMAND (Design and Manufacture for Disability). The chapel dates from 1868-70 and was designed by Giles and Biven.

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