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Mission Hall (former), Watersplace Farm near Ware. Now estate offices
Down a public right of way to the farm off the B1004 between Ware and Wareside. There is the former mission hall and two attached cottages. The hall is now the farm office. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse for the Easneye Estate and built in the 1860s.
Friends Burial Ground, Kibes Lane, Ware
The Quaker meeting-house in Ware closed in 1864 and was demolished in 1881, but the burial ground remained in this small street just north of the town centre. It is now landscaped as a knot garden with three modern reproduction Quaker burial stones. The stones marking over 200 burials are long gone.
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Brethren’s Meeting Room, Wadesmill Road, Ware
A small hall opposite Wodson Park sports centre on the northern edge of Ware.
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Cemetery Chapels, Westmill Road, Ware
In the older part of Ware Cemetery which is bisected by Westmill Road on the outskirts of Ware. The two chapels joined at right angles for Anglican and Dissenters are by Thomas Smith and date from 1854-55. After disuse they were converted to housing around 2004.
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Springs Christian Fellowship, New Road, Ware
An Assemblies of God pentecostal congregation using the former Methodist church since 1978. This was built in 1839, extended in 1886 and a new front added in 1906.
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Salvation Army (Former), Baldock Street, Ware
Not far from the parish church, it dates from 1907. The last service was held on March 25th 2019 and the building is currently disused.
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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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Leaside Church, East Street, Ware (Methodist and United Reformed Church)
A neo Norman chapel of 1859, replacing an earlier building of 1814. It was built for Congregationalists by John Brown of Ware. Methodists moved in to share it in 1978. It is in a courtyard off East street together with a contemporary school now converted into housing.
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Carmelite Monastery, Ware Park (Roman Catholic)
Down a private road in open countryside between Hertford and Ware (accessed from Ware). The nuns moved here, to a large house, in 1958 and added a chapel.
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Catholic Apostolic Church (former), New Road, Ware now Chapel Mews
The Catholic Apostolic Church was founded in 1831 by Edward Irving and used elements of worship from many other churches as well as much that was original, including their hierarchical structure. Only one church in Maida Avenue, London is still in use but a number of their buildings still exist and this one is now housing called Chapel Mews. It was built in 1856.
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Hertfordshire Churches in photographs 