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            Oxhey Chapel was built on an early monastic site in 1612 by Sir James Altham as the chapel to his new home, Oxhey Place. It is now surrounded by 1940s housing, between the brand new parish church and its vicarage. 

When the Oxhey Estate was sold in 1866 the chapel was included, but its sale was subject to certain conditions :

“The purchaser of this Lot 1 is to keep and maintain in perpetuity the Chapel and vaults in good repair and not allow them to be used for any other purpose than the celebration of such Divine Service as aforesaid (i.e. the established church) and other rites of the said church”.  The vendor also stipulated that he was to retain the right to travel by carriage or on foot twice a year to see the chapel and its monuments and that workmen were to be allowed to enter the chapel for their repair.  It is interesting to note that Cussans, writing about sixteen years later, records that “the chapel is unapproachable on foot during or after wet weather”.  Today, under the same conditions, it is still inadvisable to take a short cut over the playing fields.

Astley Roberts was appointed chaplain in 1868, to be followed by the Rev. Newton Price who became the first vicar of St. Matthew’s, the church in which the (1704) John Walker bell from the chapel now hangs.  In 1877 the estate was sold to Mr. Blackwell of Crosse and Blackwell fame, who financed the repairing of the pews with teak and the restoring on the outside of the Tudor windows, in 1897.  Anthony Blackwell was killed in the second world war and is commemorated by a stone in the west wall.

This place of worship, described by Pevsner as the best individual building in Oxhey, is thirty feet long and fourteen feet wide with seats for only forty, too samll for the population around for which All Saints church has been built.  However it should be preserved for future generations not only for its architectural value but also for its historical significance – a proprietary chapel erected on land which has been associated directly or indirectly with Christianity for some eleven centuries.

Gosforth Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire

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Taken on: September 13, 2020

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