St Nicholas Church before rebuilding (1862)
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St Nicholas Church (old) from north - 1860
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St Nicholas Church - 1860
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St Nicholas Church interior before 1862
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Inside the Old St Nicholas Church - Churchwarden leaning on font - 1860
Cat no HC 061
St Nicholas Church and National School
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Two cottages in St Nicholas Churchyard - corner of National School -after 1862 re-building
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St Nicholas Church and cottages - 1901 by Evacurtus Phipton
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St Nicholas Church from field behind Line's smithy showing open fields to the west - 1880's
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St Nicholas Church with table grave in churchyard - after re-building
Cat no HC 080
First Methodist chapel in Leyton Road - 1870
Cat no HC 157
Second Methodist Church in Leyton Road - 1890
Cat no HC 169
Methodist Church choir - 1910's
Cat no Slides B 3.52
Southdown Primitive Methodist Church - 1880
Cat no Slides B 3.30
First Catholic Church in Rothamsted Avenue
Cat no HC 005
Congregational Church from Vaughan Road - 1897
Cat no HC 102
St John's Church - corner of Crabtree Lane and Southdown Road - 1890
Cat no HC 170
Interior of St John's Church - corner of Crabtree Lane - 1900
Cat no HC 067
Smouldering frame of St John's Church - destroyed by fire - 1905
Cat no HC 174
Laying the foundation stone of St John's Church - 1908
Cat no HC 189
Drawing of St John's church, Southdown
Cat no HC 136
St John's Church - 1914
Cat no Slides B 3.21
A sequence of mainly pre-1900 pictures of some of Harpenden’s churches. In 1862, with the arrival of a new Rector, it was decided to pull down the cramped Norman nave of St Nicholas parish church – the congregation was growing and many could not see the chancel. The first photos and paintings show the pre-1862 church, followed by pictures around St Nicholas after the rebuilding.
The rest of the sequence shows the Methodist churches in Leyton Road and Southdown, the first Catholic church, the Congregational (United Reformed) church and St John’s, Southdown – the ‘paper’ church of 1905 at the corner of Crabtree Lane and the new church in St John’s Road.
The section on churches in the Topics section will gradually be expanded with the stories of the various other churches and chapels in Harpenden.
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Did this Methodist church become the Regent cinema? Any idea when that cinema closed? I’m thinking 59/60.
ed Yes, the Regent cinema was here from 1933 until it closed in 1959 – see our page on Harpenden’s three cinemas – http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page_id__68.aspx
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