The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Orton Road, Lawton Moor,

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, is an Anglican church of 1935-7 by N. F.Cachemaille-Day.Hartwell et al. 2004, p 493-4

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describes the church as "sensational for its country and its time". The church has been listed Grade II* on the

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since 16 January 1981. The Corporation of Manchester acquired the

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Estate in 1926 and began laying out the garden suburb in 1930. Covering , 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

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. The builder was J. Clayton and Sons of Denton. The plan of the church is a star, comprising two inter-locked squares. It is built of "red brick in

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with some stone dressings". The roof is flat with a cross in the centre. The interior is "raw but spatially subtle". It has an "ingenious plan with lofty columns supporting flat ribbed roof". The plans show the long-held tradition that Cachemaille-Day intended to place the altar in the centre of the building is not correct. Michael Barber, FRS (1934 – 1991) was a

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and mass spectrometrist who became the church organist.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Northenden, Church of Saint Michael and All Angels 20th-century Church of England church buildings Church of England church buildings in Greater Manchester Churches completed in 1937 Grade II* listed churches in Manchester Nugent Cachemaille-Day buildings Christian organizations established in 1934

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