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Poles Convent Chapel, Thundridge (now Poles Hall, Hanbury Manor Hotel)

Hanbury Manor Hotel is a country house hotel between Ware and Thundridge. It was built as  by Ernest George and Peto in 1890-91, but became a convent school in 1923 for which a chapel was added in 1934. The school closed in 1986 and became a luxury hotel in 1990. The chapel is now a function room called Poles Hall.

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Royal Masonic School for Girls Chapel, Chorleywood Road, Rickmansworth

Built 1928-33 and designed by John L. Denman. It is close to the road and the exterior can be viewed from a footpath between the road and the school boundary fence.

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Berkhamsted School Chapel

An independent school just off the town centre. The chapel lays alongside the road and was designed by Charles Henry Rew and built in 1894-95.

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Haileybury School chapel

South of Hertford Heath a large public school whose site is crossed by several rights of way. The domed chapel was added in 1876-77 by Arthur Blomfield. An apse was added in 1936 by Herbert Baker who also remodelled the interior

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St Edmund’s College Chapel, Old Hall Green (Roman Catholic)

A private Roman Catholic School alongside the old A10 south of Puckeridge. The chapel was designed by Augustus Pugin and built 1845-53 in the style of an Oxbridge College chapel. The Lady Chapel of 1861 and the Schofield Chantry of 1862 were added by his son E.W. Pugin. F.A. Walters added a Shrine Chapel in 1904 and a Galilee Chapel in 1922.It is not right by the road but from certain angles can be seen from a long way off as in the hazy view taken from across the fields a mile away to the south-east.

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