Saint Mary and Archangel Michael Church is a Coptic Orthodox church on Cranbourne Gardens, Temple Fortune, north London. 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.
History
Initially an 1890s mission church 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. 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. 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.
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.
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