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[disambiguation needed] 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]