Church Micro 10851. . . Hackney - St Michael & All Angels
The cache, a 35mm film canister, is hidden at head height in one of the lime trees. Please take care to avoid observation by muggles and utilise your preferred anti-muggle measures accordingly as you search for, retrieve and replace the cache. The cache was hidden with the kind permission of the Vicar, Reverend James B Lawson.
The Anglican district church of Saint Michael and All Angels Church and Vicarage was built by a prolific church builder J.E.K Cutts (1847-1938) from 1883-5 and is located at the south-eastern corner of Fountayne Road at its junction with Northwold Road.
With his brother, John Priston Cutts, John Edward Knight Cutts designed and supervised the construction of 46 churches in England between 1873 and 1912.
This chapelry was created from parts of Stamford Hill and West Hackney and was considered as part of Stoke Newington's civil parish boundaries.
It is constructed of redbrick in an early-English style. The west end 'makes a most dramatic statement' from Northwold Road with tall lancet windows above a square porch with Portland stone dressings. Another account sees it rather differently . . . 'economic necessity was probably to blame for the dull west front of the church'!
The church has simple stepped buttresses on the side aisles and three-light clerestory windows. The blue Welsh slate roof of the chancel and the side aisles contrasts well with the red brick of the body of the church. To the rear of the Church in Fountayne Road is a large, three-storey Victorian vicarage in matching brick with stone dressings. There are extensive grounds to the buildings with mature lime trees.
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