The Churches of Britain and Ireland
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Stratford, Buckinghamshire Bletchley and Fenny Stratford on Wikipedia. Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, St. Mary. SP 8631 3378. © John Balaam (2009). Link. Grade I listed. The famous WWII Bletchley Park code-breaking establishment had a chapel, Hut 12, used by Roman Catholics and Christian Scientists. © Janet Gimber (2019). Old maps show a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Buckingham Road. Today called Freeman Memorial Methodist Church, it was seen by Streetview in 2020. SP 8661 3348. Link. Whaddon Way Church, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Winners Chapel, St. Andrew, Fenny Stratford, the former Salvation Army hall on Church Street, now in use as a youth centre. It's dated here to 1887. Circa SP 8815 3408. © Rob Kinnon-Brettle. St. Martin. SP 8825 3407. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, from Streetview in 2021. Link. Grade II* listed, wherein it's dated to 1724-30, with later additions and alterations. Queensway Methodist Church, on Queensway, as seen by Streetview in 2018. It's dated here to 2009. SP 8789 3387. St. Thomas Aquinas (R.C.) is on Aylesbury Street and Sycamore Avenue. It was seen by Streetview in 2019. SP 8813 3372. Link. The Potter's House Christian Fellowship Church meets in the Community Centre (a former Temperance Hall of 1892) on George Street. Streetview saw it in 2018. SP 8807 3405. Link. Older O.S. maps show a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Watling Street, at SP 8811 3419. As of 2021, its site (Streetview) remains undeveloped. On a map of 1881 there's a Primitive Methodist Chapel on Aylesbury Street at SP 8815 3394. In 2021 (Streetview) there was an Indian Restaurant on the site. Another vanished chapel was the Baptist Chapel on Aylesbury Street, at SP 8818 3387. It's called Spurgeon Memorial Church here, where there is a photo, and it's dated to 1892. In this 2021 Streetview, it would have stood partly under the flats at the left, extending onto the garage forecourt. The cemetery off Aylesbury Street used to have two mortuary chapels. These were Nonconformist at SP 8796 3369, and Church of England at SP 8796 3372. Only the latter survives, and it was seen (distantly) by Streetview in 2021. The other chapel stood a short distance further left.
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14 April 2026
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