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Strict Baptist (former), Froghall Lane, Walkern.
This is an empty plot in a dead road off the main street in Walkern. I assume this is the site of the Strict Baptist chapel as it is edged by damaged and decaying gravestones and the chapel was in this lane. I do not know when it closed or was demolished, its available registers go from 1862 to 1937.
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United Reformed Church, Walkern
At the northern end of the main village street. Dating from 1810, the timber-framed building underwent major restoration and refurbishment during 2014 and reopened in January 2015.
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St Mary the Virgin, Walkern
In a rural setting on the eastern edge of this large village just east of Stevenage. Inside are, rare for the county, Saxon remains in the wall through which the south arcade is punched with an in situ carving above. Also in the south aisle is a Purbeck marble knight of the mid 13th century. The chancel was rebuilt by Henry Woodyer in 1877-78 and H.R. Gough restored the church in 1882, his are the two large arches separating the north chancel chapel from the chancel.
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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 