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 | ||
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| 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 | ||
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St Giles in the 1930s. |
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St Giles as it looked in the late 1920s |
![]() St Giles before the Second World War showing the old font. |
| War time damage | ||
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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 |
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| 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 | ||
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| David Tindall RA | Phyllis Ginger RWS (1907-2005) | |
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| St Giles showing wartime bomb damage | ||
| Photo survey of the area in 1961 | ||
![]() Open air service in St Giles |
![]() St Luke's with the organ that was later moved to bombed St. Giles |
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Post-war restoration Reconstruction in progress - with St Giles in the centre |
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![]() The St Luke's Organ is now in place. In 1960 St Luke's closed, and the congregation moved to St Giles |

























