page_title: St Botolph's Aldgate
section_title: Eighteenth century
hierarchical_section_title: St Botolph's Aldgate / History / Eighteenth century
caption_attribution_description: English: Ceiling detail at St Botolph's Aldgate church in London, England.
context_page_description: St Botolph's Aldgate is a Church of England parish church in the City of London and also, as it lies outside the line of the city's former eastern walls, a part of the East End of London.
  The full name of the church is St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories and it is sometimes known simply as Aldgate Church. The ecclesiastical parish was united with that of the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories, in 1899.
  The current 18th-century church building is made of brick with stone quoins and window casings. The tower is square with an obelisk spire.
context_section_description: St Botolph's was completely rebuilt between 1741 and 1744, to a design by George Dance the Elder. The exterior is of brick with projecting quoins, stone windows  surrounds and a stone cornice. The tower, also of brick, has rusticated quoins, and a stone spire. The interior of the building is divided into nave and aisles by four widely spaced piers supporting a flat ceiling. There are galleries along three sides. The church is lit by two rows of windows in each side wall, one above and one below the gallery. The monuments from the old building were preserved, and reinstalled in the new church.
caption: Ceiling detail
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