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Hallingbury Free Church, Little Hallingbury

Click on the 'play' symbol in the second image to see all my photographs of this church as a slide show, then click on any image in the slideshow to see it large in a new page. Alternatively, if you don't have flash enabled, you can go straight to the set for this church on flickr. Situated in the hamlet of Gaston Green a few metres from the Hertfordshire border, the origins of this humble little building are indicated above the entrance where a rather battered plaque records that this Mission Hall was built in 1877. The building was used by local community groups as well as by the congregation, but by 2008 the size of the congregation had fallen to such a low that they moved in with Bishop's Stortford Baptist church, bringing this little chapel with them. The building has a curious air of being maintained but not actually used as church, which is more or less right because the community groups still using it are secular, apart from the Portugese Baptist services which are held here monthly by the mother church while they seek a new use for it. Simon Knott, May 2014

 

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