St Botolph Aldersgate

St Botolph Aldersgate

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address = Aldersgate Street, City of London
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St Botolph Aldersgate is a Church of England church on Aldersgate Street in the City of London, dedicated to St Botolph.

The first church was built during the reign of Edward the Confessor ["The Visitors Guide to the City of London Churches" Tucker,T: London, Friends of the City Churches, 2006 ISBN 0955394503] and was a Cluniac priory with attached hospital for the poor [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22122 British History Online] 'Religious Houses: Hospitals', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1: Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, The Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes to 1870, Private Education from Sixteenth Century (1969), pp. 204-212. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22122. Date accessed: 03 January 2008.] . The buildings were located outside the city wall. In the 15th century, Henry V seized the property on the grounds that it was not English and granted it to the parish of St. Botolph, but it again became a religious foundation when one William Bever founded a brotherhood of the Holy Trinity there. Upon the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, the church, hospital and lands were granted to one of the king's heralds-at-arms, William Harvye or Somerset, in 1548.

The present church was built 1788-91 ["The Old Churches of London" Cobb,G: London, Batsford,1942] . . Its churchyard was combined with those of St Leonard, Foster Lane and Christchurch Newgate Street into Postman's Park ["London:the City Churches" Pevsner,N/Bradley,S : New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550] , and this now contains the 1900 Watts memorial to civilian Londoners who died heroic deaths. A fairly plain exterior is contrasted by an "exalting" succession of well presented features once inside [ The City of London Churches Betjeman,J Andover, Pikin, 1967 ISBN 0853721122]
*panelled columns supporting wooden galleries over north and south aisles
*round headed Victorian stained glass windows
*semi-circular apse with half dome
*only 18th century in the the City: "The Agony in the Garden"

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External links

* [http://www.stbotolphsaldersgate.org.uk Church Website]


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