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 This page provides historic illustrations as well as photos of St Giles before and after the damage of the Second World

St Giles in the 19th Century    
Engraving of the Church in the 19th Century old illustration of the interior Cripplegate in 1662
Victorian engraving of the Church Yard and the Church Old illustration of the interior of St Giles Cripplegate in 1662
Before the 1939-1945 War    
St Giles St Giles in the 1930s. St Giles
     
st giles St Giles as it looked in the late 1920s Interior of old St Giles


St Giles before the Second World War showing the old font.
     
War time damage    
After bombing After bombing After bombing
Milton off his pedestal MILTON, knocked from his pedestal by
German bombing, in the destroyed church.
This photograph appeared in a Philadelphia (USA)
newspaper in September 1940, and was sent us by
Kevin Farley, PhD
Collection Librarian for the Humanities
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
 
Two paintings of St Giles after the bombing, by kind permission of the Chris Beetles Gallery, 8 & 10 Ryder St, St James's, London SW1Y 6QB
David Tindall Phyllis Ginger
David Tindall RA Phyllis Ginger RWS (1907-2005)    
St Giles Survey photo from 1961
St Giles showing wartime bomb damage
  Photo survey of the area in 1961  
service in bombed church
Open air service in St Giles
St Lukes with the organ moved to St Giles
St Luke's with the organ that was later moved to bombed St. Giles
Post-war restoration

Reconstruction in progress - with St Giles in the centre
Barbican building in progress
After restoration After restoration
   
St Giles St Lukes congregation moves to St Giles

The St Luke's Organ is now in place.  In 1960 St Luke's closed, and the congregation moved to St Giles