Catalogue description Bushey Heath Methodist Church (Primitive)

A History of the Methodist Church on Bushey Heath 1883-1983 by John M Wood is available in the record office search room

• Bushey Heath Methodist Church, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire
• Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire

A Primitive Methodist chapel first opened in 1852 at the foot of Clay Hill, Bushey. The building later became a theatre for Sir Hubert Herkomer and a film studio.An iron chapel erected in The Rutts, Bushey Heath on land purchased from a Mr Taylor of Stanmore was formally opened on 24 June 1883. This building still stands and is at present used by the Girl Guides Association. A new site in the High Road was offered to the connection in 1888 and a new chapel opened here in 1891. By 1961 this building was considered too uneconomical to repair. It was demolished in 1967 and the site redeveloped as shops. Services were continued in a prefabricated iron building while the new church was being erected on the site of 69 High Road, Bushey Heath. The modern church now known as St Andrew was opened on 14 September 1968.

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