Nugent Francis Cachemalille Cachemaille-Day

• Birth date            23 July 1896 at St Hiliary, Cleveland Road, South Woodford, Essex
• Baptism               16 August 1896 at Holy Trinity, Hermon Hill, South Woodford
• Marriage              22. April 1933 to Anna Luise v. Polentz at St. Bartholomew's Church. Gray's Inn Road.
• Death date          4 May 1976 at 7 Chesham Street, Brighton.
  
• Cremation           Brighton Crematorium

Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day was a prolific designer and restorer especially of churches from 1931 until his retirement in 1963. He worked in a variety of styles, from traditional designs to expressionism to post war modernism. Many of his church designs are listed and still in use today.

The only son of Harvey Francis Day, mechanical engineer, and his wife, Katie Margaret Mary, née Cachemaille, Nugent Francis Cachemaille Day, was born on 23 July 1896 at St Hiliary, Cleveland Road, South Woodford, Essex, and baptized at Holy Trinity, Hermon Hill, South Woodford, on 16 August that year, In 1924 he changed his surname by deed poll to Cachemaille-Day. Cachemaille Day was educated at Westminster School, after which he attended the Architectural Association between 1912 and 1921.  He was elected Associate of the RIBA in 1926 and became a Fellow in 1935. He was first employed by Louis de Soissons at Welwyn Garden City where he met Herbert Welch (1884-1953) and Felix Lander (1896-1960).  Later he became chief assistant to H. S. Goodhart Rendel.

He commenced independent practice in 1928 with Felix J. Lander and, in 1930,  they  joined Herbert A. Welch in a short-lived but prolific partnership.  In 1935 Cachemaille-Day left the partnership and set up on his own. In 1961 he moved his home and office from London to Brighton where he remained until his death. He always had a varied practice, which included housing and schools. However, as a keen churchman, his chief interest was in church building, which began with St. Nicholas, Burnage (1931 2) and continued until the early 1960s, when the extension of the same church was one of his last works. As a high Anglican, like his parents, he developed a particular interest in church design which was to make up by far the largest and most important part of his work. Travelling widely in Europe from the early 1930s, he became well aware of continental developments in church design and was clearly influenced by the ideas of the liturgical movement

 Cachemaiile-Day retired in 1963, suffering from failing eyesight, and he died on 4 May 1976 at his home, 7 Chesham Street, Brighton. He was cremated at Brighton crematorium. (Effects £216)