page_title: St Giles-without-Cripplegate
section_title: Layout of the church
hierarchical_section_title: St Giles-without-Cripplegate / Layout of the church
caption_attribution_description: Floor plan of St Giles' Cripplegate
context_page_description: St Giles-without-Cripplegate is an Anglican church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex. When built it stood without the city wall, near the Cripplegate. The church is dedicated to St Giles, patron saint of lepers, beggars and the handicapped. It is one of the few medieval churches left in the City of London, having survived the Great Fire of 1666.
context_section_description: John Milton buried here in 1674
  The altar from St. Luke's, Old Street, which was dismantled in the 1960s due to subsidence.
  The east window. Designed by the Nicholson Studios, following the pattern of the original medieval window.
  Sedilia (where the priest sat) and piscina of the medieval church.
  Display cabinet containing the historic treasures of Cripplegate.
  John Foxe, author of "The Book of Martyrs" is buried here.
  Plaque commemorating Sir Martin Frobisher, explorer and sea Captain.
  Bust of John Speed, map maker and historian.
  Statue of John Milton by Horace Montford
  The organ. From St. Luke's, Old Street
  Bust of Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe" and John Milton.
  Busts of Oliver Cromwell and John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress".
  Portrait of Dr. William Nicholls, the first Rector of St. Luke's Church and Vicar of St. Giles'.
  The West Window – shows the coats of arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Milton, Cromwell and Frobisher.
  The font – from St. Luke's Church.
  The Cripplegate Window which celebrates the centenary of the charity The Cripplegate Foundation.
  Bust of Sir William Staines, Lord Mayor of London in 1801.
caption: Interior of St Giles Cripplegate
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