Saint Mary and Archangel Michael Church
Saint Mary and Archangel Michael Church is a Coptic Orthodox church on Cranbourne Gardens, Temple Fortune, north London.[1] It is housed in a building built in stages between 1915 and 1962 as the Church of England church of Saint Barnabas, Temple Fortune, whose records are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.[2]
History
[edit]Initially an 1890s mission church[a] of St Mary's Church, Hendon, then a London Diocesan Home Mission, it became a consolidated chapelry of its own in 1923, taking parts of Hendon and Finchley parishes.[1] Its 1915 building by John Samuel Alder had its nave extended and a chancel and Lady Chapel added in 1932–1934 by Ernest Charles Shearman.[1] A replacement nave was designed in 1962 by Romilly Craze. August 1994 saw the Anglican congregation move out, with its parish area absorbed into that of St Alban's Church, Golders Green.[1][3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ A mission church is an outlying non-parish church, similar to a chapel of ease, established to reach those for whom the parish church would be inaccessible; it is directly supported by the parish or diocese.