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

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

^ 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.

References

51°34′58″N 0°12′14″W / 51.5829°N 0.2039°W / 51.5829; -0.2039

[3] 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.

[AIM-1] "AIM25 entry".

[2] "Discovery – National Archives".

[4] "Church Heritage Record 623308".

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