[2] The Corporation of Manchester acquired the Wythenshawe Estate in 1926 and began laying out the garden suburb in 1930.

Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day was appointed as architect for both the church and the adjoining parsonage.

[1] It has an "ingenious plan with lofty columns supporting [a] flat ribbed roof".

[3] The plans show the long-held tradition that Cachemaille-Day intended to place the altar in the centre of the building is not correct.

[1] Michael Barber, FRS (1934 – 1991) was a chemist and mass spectrometrist who became the church organist.