Nugent Cachemaille-Day

Cachemaille-Day's Church of the Epiphany, Gipton, Leeds
St Edmund, Chingford, London

Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day (1896-1976)[1] (often referred to as NF Cachemaille-Day) was an English architect, who designed some of the most "revolutionary"[2] twentieth-century churches in the country. Nikolaus Pevsner described his Church of St Nicholas, Burnage as "a milestone in the history of church architecture in England."[3]

After training at the Architectural Association, Cachemaille-Day set up practice with Felix Lander and Herbert Welch as "Welch, Cachemaille-Day, and Lander" in 1929.[4] In 1935 NF Cachemaille-Day began an independent practice. Shortly afterwards, Cachemaille-Day designed the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden (1936-7) which well illustrates his absorption of "Continental experiments."[5] Pevsner described it as "a sensational church for its country and its day."[6]

From the 1930s, be became known for his churches some of which are the most innovative ecclesiastical buildings of their time. He was one of the leading English architects to embrace the Liturgical Movement. Between 1931 and 1963 he designed at least 61 churches many of which now have English Heritage Listed status. His churches include St Alban's Church, Southampton and the Church of St Nicholas, Burnage. The interior of his church of St. Barnabas Stroud Road Gloucester, built at the foot of the Cotswolds in an estate south of the ancient city, distills Gothic into pure, simple gestures of interchanging arches within a huge hall church: the energy and dance of the Gothic is at the heart of this design, setting up a majestic yet lively space, its scale suggesting the ambition of a cathedral builder.

St Edmund, Chingford is a 1938 Grade II listed church at Larkswood Road, Chingford, London E4 9DS.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/332/40
  2. ↑ The Buildings of England: Lancashire - Manchester and the South East, page 87
  3. ↑ The Buildings of England: Lancashire - Manchester and the South East, page 410
  4. ↑ http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/332/40
  5. ↑ Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, page 339
  6. ↑ The Buildings of England: Lancashire - Manchester and the South East, page 493
  7. ↑ Historic England. "St Edmund, Chingford (1191122)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

References