| St Nicholas Church, Harpenden | |
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 St Nicholas Church, Harpenden | |
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Broad Church |
| Website | parishofharpenden |
| History | |
| Dedication | St. Nicholas |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Harpenden |
| Diocese | St Albans |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Priest(s) | Revd Linda Williams (from December 2010) |
The church of St Nicholas in Harpenden is a parish church in the Church of England. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
It is the oldest known church in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. It was originally built as a Chapel-of-Ease in about 1217, until it was enlarged and the existing tower added in 1470. The old church was demolished in 1861 to make way for a larger building. The tower contains a ring of eight bells, the oldest of which dates from 1612.
Harpenden remained part of the ecclesiastical parish of Wheathampstead until 1859 but was, from the Middle Ages, a separate civil parish with its own officials, who were elected annually at the Abbot's Manorial Court, held at Wheathampstead. In 1862, only three years after the long-sought separation from the parish of Wheathampstead, the church was rebuilt to accommodate the growing congregation.
The church is part of the Parish of Harpenden St Nicholas, a Church of England Parish within the Diocese of St Albans. Within the parish are two daughter churches, All Saints' in the East of the town on Station Road in the Batford district of Harpenden, and St Mary's on the Northern outskirts. These churches have their own District Committees (as St Nicholas does) and enjoy a degree of autonomy and distinctive styles of worship.
St Albans is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England and the main urban area in the City and District of St Albans. It lies east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, about 20 miles (32 km) north-north-west of central London, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Welwyn Garden City and 11 miles (18 km) south-south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north and it became the Roman city of Verulamium. It is within the London commuter belt and the Greater London Built-up Area. With a population of 82,146, it is the fourth-most-populous settlement in Hertfordshire.
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