St Giles-without-Cripplegate
| St Giles-without-Cripplegate | |
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London, Middlesex | |
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| Location: | 51.518717, -0.094042 |
| Address: | Fore Street |
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| Perpendicular Gothic | |
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St Giles-without-Cripplegate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex.[1] When built it stood without (that is, outside) the city wall, near the Cripplegate.
This is one of the few mediæval churches left in the City of London, having survived the Great Fire of London of 1666.[2]
The church is designated a Grade I listed building.[3]
History
There had been a Saxon church on the site in the 11th century but by 1090 it had been replaced by a Norman one. In 1394 it was rebuilt in the Perpendicular Gothic style.[4] The stone tower was added in 1682.[5]
[1545] The xii day of September at iiii of cloke in the mornynge was sent Gylles church at Creppyl gatte burnyd, alle hole save the walles, stepull, belles and alle, and how it came God knoweth.
The church has been badly damaged by fire on three occasions: In 1545, in 1897[6] and during an air raid of the Blitz of the Second World War .[7] German bombs completely gutted the church but it was restored using the plans of the reconstruction of 1545. A new ring of twelve bells was cast by Mears and Stainbank in 1954, and this was augmented with a sharp second bell cast in 2006 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[8]
Notable people associated with the church
- John Field, curate of the church, c. 1570
- John Foxe, author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, surrogate for Crowley c. 1565 and buried in the church, 1587
- Robert Crowley, rector of St Giles's and Protestant polemicist was buried in the church in 1588
- Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist, had his son baptised in the church in 1586
- Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the church after Crowley
- Roger Townshend, buried in the church in 1590
- Sir Martin Frobisher, the captain who sought the North West Passage and fought against the Spanish Armada, buried in the church, 1594
- Sir Francis Willoughby, industrialist and coalowner, buried in the church in 1596
- Nathaniel Eaton, first schoolmaster of Harvard College, baptised in the church in 1610
- Oliver Cromwell, Parliamentarian commander in the Civil War, then Lord Protector of England, married Elizabeth Bourchier in the church, 1620
- Nicholas Tooley, Shakespearean actor, shareholder in the Globe Theatre, buried 5 June 1623
- John Speed, author of the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, buried in the church in 1629
- John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, buried in the church in 1674
- John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, attended the church
- Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died in the parish, 1731
- Mark Catesby, naturalist, artist, and author of Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1729–1747), was a parishioner and several of his children were baptised in the church, and later buried in the churchyard
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References
- ↑ Betjeman, John: "The City of London Churches" (Pikin, 1967) ISBN 0-85372-112-2
- ↑ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359183: St Giles Cripplegate
- ↑ "The Old Churches of London" Cobb,G: London, Batsford, 1942
- ↑ "The City Churches" Tabor, M. p34:London; The Swarthmore Press Ltd; 1917
- ↑ "The Visitors Guide to the City of London Churches" Tucker,T: London, Friends of the City Churches, 2006 ISBN 0-9553945-0-3
- ↑ History of St Giles' without Cripplegate
- ↑ Love's Guide to the Church Bells of the City of London