St Giles Cripplegate in 1900

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No one should fail to pay a visit to St. Giles', Cripplegate, in Red Cross Street.

Its name has nothing to do with cripples, but means "crepel geat," or "covered way," and this is confirmed by the discovery in 1900 in the churchyard of some oval tunnels used by the Roman soldiery when defending the adjoining city wall.

(This was the Barbican, and St Giles is an integral part of the modern-day Barbican development.)

St. Giles', spared from the Great Fire, but severely injured by a fire little less fierce that raged in Cripplegate in 1897, was a really old-looking building, and quaint, the tower especially.

Its monuments repaid a careful examination, but its most precious relic was, of course, the mortal remains of Milton, whose grave was in the nave.

It was also associated with Oliver Cromwell, who was married here to Elizabeth Bourchier (or Bouchier), a native of Felstead in Essex.

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