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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox church The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Orton Road, Lawton Moor, Northenden, Manchester, is an Anglican church of 1935-7 by N. F.Cachemaille-Day.[1] Pevsner describes the church as "sensational for its country and its time".[1] The church has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England since 16 January 1981.[2]

The Corporation of Manchester acquired the Wythenshawe Estate in 1926 and began laying out the garden suburb in 1930. Covering Шаблон:Convert, it was eventually to have 25,000 houses and a population of 100,000. The garden suburb was designated part of the parish of Church of St Wilfrid, Northenden but that small parish church proved insufficient to accommodate the rising congregation. A mission church was therefore opened in 1934, and in 1935 the diocese approved plans for the construction of a new parish church at Orton Road. The budget was £10,000. Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day was appointed as architect for both the church and the adjoining parsonage. The foundation stone for the church was laid on 8 May 1937, by the Bishop of Manchester. The builder was J. Clayton and Sons of Denton.

The plan of the church is a star, comprising two inter-locked squares.[1] It is built of "red brick in English bond with some stone dressings".[3] The roof is flat with a cross in the centre.[1]

The interior is "raw but spatially subtle".[1] It has an "ingenious plan with lofty columns supporting [a] flat ribbed roof".[3] The plans show the long-held tradition that Cachemaille-Day intended to place the altar in the centre of the building is not correct.[1]

Michael Barber, FRS (1934 – 1991) was a chemist and mass spectrometrist who became the church organist.

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 Hartwell et al. 2004, p 493-4
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  3. 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite web