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This was a daughter church of St Matthew. The building was also used by the local
community and by Broadfield School, a junior department of Brookside House Grammar
School in High Road, Harrow Weald. It was closed in 1970, by which time the congregation
had fallen to about 40, and the site was redeveloped as St Francis Close. The old
vicarage has remained and is now incorporated into 13-

Two photos of the church taken in January 1966
The Parsonage, built c.1958

The marriage of Elaine Rayner and Graham Goulding in June 1968; one of the last weddings at St Francis.


Two final pictures of St Francis, taken in early 1970, around the time it finally closed.



The altar in St Francis Church
Photograph found in St Matthew’s vestry, now in Hertfordshire Records Office.