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Cemetery Chapel, Melbourn Road, Royston

Just up the road from the Roman Catholic church. The chapel is boarded up and out of use.

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Congregational Church (former), Kneesworth Street, Royston

Now in use commercially, it was converted after falling out of use in the 1980s. It dates from 1791-92

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The Old Chapel, Porters Park Drive, Shenley Park

The former inter-denominational chapel of the former Shenley Mental Hospital that closed in 1998. Its huge site is now covered by modern housing and a pleasant park at whose north edge sits this large building of 1938. The architects were W.T. Curtis and D. Robertson. It is now used as a community hall.

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Baptist Chapel (Former), Primrose Hill, Kings Langley

Replaced by the 1930s chapel near the village centre. This building dates from 1875, and has been converted for commercial use.

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Apsley Community Centre, London Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead

Formerly Apsley Methodist Church, it became the Community Centre in 1984.

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Church website

Congregational Church (former), Box Lane, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead

On the edge of Hemel beyond the railway station this chapel was founded in 1668, re-built in 1690 and altered in 1856 and 1876. It closed in 1969 and is now a house, the upper story dates from this conversion.

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Congregational Church (former), High Street, Bushey (was Margaret Howard Theatre and Studios and MPAA Academy)

Next to the Rose garden at the Bushey Heath end of Bushey. It was designed by Percy Morley-Horder and built 1904. It became a  theatre and dance studios and academy but as of summer 2024 these have closed and the building is up for sale for £1.75 million.

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Friends Meeting House (former), Meeting House Lane, Baldock

A timber framed building of around 1750, long in non Quaker use. The last two pictures are from June 2015 after the completion of building work.

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Baptist Church (former), Victoria Street, St Albans

Now used as a club. It was built in 1881-82.

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Old Independent Chapel (former), Church Street, Ware

Built in 1778, with a rebuilding in the mid 19th century. It closed in 1918 and has had a variety of uses as a hall, auction rooms, club, printing works but was empty  when photographed in Oct 2014.  In March 2017 it was undergoing refurbishment (bottom right) and conversion into five two bedroom flats.

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