Nugent Francis Cachemaille Cachemaille-Day [Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day; also known as N.F. Cachemaille-Day] was born Nugent Francis Cachemaille Day in South Woodford, Essex, England on 23 July 1896 and trained at the Architectural Association in London. He began his architectural career working for Louis de Soissons (1890-1962) in Welwyn Garden City. There he met Herbert Welch (1884-1953) and Felix Lander (1897-1960) and, after working for a period as an assistant to H. S. Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959), formed a partnership with them in 1928 as Welch, Cachemaille-Day & Lander.
The firm designed a large number of buildings throughout suburban London and the South East, including houses, shops, hotels and churches. Most of the churches were designed by Cachemaille-Day. The partnership was dissolved in 1935 and, thereafter, Cachemaille-Day practised alone. He specialised in ecclesiastical commissions and during his career as an architect is calculated to have designed over 60 churches. He also restored many more, some of which had been damaged by bombing in World War Two.
Notable among churches designed by Cachemaille-Day were St Nicholas in Burnage (1932); St. Alban's Church in Southampton (1933); St. Saviours in Eltham (1933); Church of St Mary in Beacontree (1935); St Michael and All Angels in Wythenshawe (1937); St. Paul’s in South Harrow (1938); St Edmund in Chingford (1938); The Church of the Epiphany in Gipton, Leeds (1938); All Saints in Hanworth (1951); St Michael and All Angels in London Fields (1960); and St. Paul's in West Hackney (1960).
Cachemaille-Day was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1926 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1935. He died in Brighton, Sussex on 4 May 1976.
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Bullen, Michael. Cachemaille-Day's Manchester churches. M.A. thesis, University of Manchester, 1991
Bullen, Michael. ‘Cachemaille-Day's Manchester churches’ in The Church in Cottonopolis : essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the Diocese of Manchester edited by Chris Ford, Michael Powell Terry Wyke. Manchester: Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1997 pp.144-174
Cachemaille-Day, N. F. ‘Ecclesiastical architecture in the present age’. RIBA Journal vol. 40, 1932–33, pp. 825–38
Hill, Anthony. N. F. Cachemaille-Day, a search for something more’. The Thirties Society Journal no.7, 1991 pp.20-27
Powers, Alan. Modern. The Modern Movement in Britain. London: Merrell, 2005
Yatol, Roger Shuff. ‘A Moderne Home for a Modern Woman. Marion Brownlie Blackwell and 1 The Ridings, Ealing’. Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present vol. 44, 2020 pp. 46-69 [Discusses a Modernist house designed by Herbert A. Welch, Felix James Lander and Nugent Francis Cacheaille Day of Welch, Cachemaille-Day & Lander for client Marion Brownlie Blackwell in 1933]