St Giles-without-Cripplegate
51.518716666667 - 0.094041666666667Koordinaten: 51 ° 31 '7 "N, 0 ° 5' 39 " W
St Giles - without- Cripplegate is a church building of the Church of England in the City of London, in the modern complex Barbican Estate. At the time of its foundation, the church stood without, that is, outside the London Wall, near the Cripplegate. The church is dedicated to St. Giles, the patron saint of beggars and cripples. The building is one of the few medieval churches that are still present in the City of London, as few the Great Fire of London in 1666 have survived.
History
At the site of the present church was in the eleventh century an Anglo-Saxon church, but this was in 1090 replaced by a Norman structure. This was in 1394 rebuilt in the Perpendicular style.
"The xii day of September at iiii of cloke in the mornynge what sent Gylles church at Creppyl spouse burnyd, all hole save the walles, stepull, belles and all, and how it came God knoweth. "
" On the 12th day of September by four clock in the morning the church of St. Giles at Cripplegate burned down - everything except the walls - steeple, bells and everything, and how it happened, God only knows "
The church was badly damaged by fire three times; 1545, 1879 and during a German air raid during the blitz of World War II in the night December 29, 1940. Through bombing the church burned, although up to the foundation walls from, but one built again it according to the plans of the repair from 1545 on. The bell tower of sandstone 1682 the building added. A new peal of twelve bells was cast by Mears and Stainbank was installed in 1954; This was supplemented in 2006 with a second set of bells, which was produced by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
On January 4, 1950, the church as a memorial rank 1 ( Grade I Listed Building ) was classified.
Floor plan and equipment
Organ
The organ dates back to an instrument built in 1733 by the organ builders Jordan and Bridge for the Church of St. Luke, Old Street, and 1863 had been revised by the organ builder Ms Willis. In 1971 the organ by the organ builder was N.P. Mander ( London) situated in the St. Giles without Cripplegate and expanded. The organ case dates from 1733 and was taken from the St Luke's Church. The housing of the Rückpositiv was added in 1971. The organ has 42 registers on three manuals and pedal. The tracker action is electro-pneumatic.
Well-known persons in connection with this church
- John Feild, 1570 Vicar of the Church
- John Foxe, author of Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, 1565 Robert Crowley 's deputy, was in 1587 buried in the church
- Robert Crowley, Rector of St Giles 's, printer, poet, 1588 buried in the church
- Lancelot Andrewes, Rector after Crowley
- Sir Martin Frobisher, Captain, who fought against the Spanish Armada, was buried here in 1594
- Nathaniel Eaton, the first director of the Harvard College was baptized here in 1610
- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector and German military point of England, married in the church in 1620
- Nicholas Tooley, Shakespearean actor, was buried here on June 5, 1623
- John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim 's Progress, attended services here
- Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died in 1731 in the parish