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St Michael's Church, Grove Park

St Michael's Church, Grove Park is an Anglican church in the Grove Park district of Chiswick, opened in 1909. Its red brick architecture by W. D. Caröe & Herbert Passmore has been praised by Nikolaus Pevsner.

Architecture
St Michael's Church on Elmwood Road in the Sutton Court area of Grove Park, Chiswick, was designed in the Arts and Crafts style by the architects W. D. Caröe & Herbert Passmore; it was founded in 1908 and completed in 1909. The "picturesque" The historian Jennifer Freeman writes of the building that "the emphasis externally is on the craftwork, on careful stone dressings, on subtle variations in the tilework, on the timbering, brickwork and leadwork", The St Michael's church architect Patrick Crawford comments that the most remarkable feature of the church is its tiled arches. File:St Michael (Sutton Court), Elmwood Road front.jpg|Elmwood Road front, showing some of the unusual shallow tiled arches File:St Michael (Sutton Court) Elmwood Road, architectural detail.jpg|Architectural detail File:St Michael (Sutton Court) Elmwood Road, western end.jpg|Western end, facing Sutton Lane South File:St Michael (Sutton Court) Elmwood Road, foundation stone.jpg|Foundation stone, laid by Lord Kinnaird, 19 December 1908 File:St Michael (Sutton Court) Elmwood Road, back facing garden.jpg|The garden side of the church == History ==
History
The building was funded by the sale of St Michael, Burleigh Street, on the Strand, in central London, raising the sum of £20,500. The church has been Grade II listed since 1985. == Notes ==
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