Catalogue description Aldenham Methodist Church (Primitive)

This record is held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of NM7P
Reference: NM7P
Title: Aldenham Methodist Church (Primitive)
Held by: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Subjects:
  • Aldenham Methodist Church, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  • Aldenham, Hertfordshire
Administrative / biographical background:

A small society of Primitive Methodists were meeting in Aldenham from September 1870. However it was not until December 1874 that they were able to rent an iron mission room at Letchmore Heath. This building was purchased in 1885 by Henry Hucks Gibbs for use as a social club so the Methodists were unable to use it again. They resorted to meeting on Letchmore Heath and in the blacksmith's forge when the weather was inclement. Frederick William Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham leased to the society a small plot of land at Four Want Ways, Aldenham in 1886. The foundation stone of a permanent chapel was laid in April the following year and the building was opened for worship on 3 June 1887. The society purchased the freehold of this land in 1959. However falling numbers led to services being suspended in 1965 and the building was leased to the Scout Association. It was finally sold in 1983 for conversion into a private house.
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