(St.) Giles' without Cripplegate Churchyard

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

On the south and west sides of the church. In Cripplegate Ward Without, bounded by the City Wall on the south.


Enlarged 1662, a piece of ground near Crowder's Well being taken for a burial ground (Malcolm, III. 272).

Almshouses in the churchyard suppressed, time H. VIII. (S. 303).

The remains of a bastion of the City Wall are preserved in the churchyard, the foundations being 18 ft. below the present level of the Churchyard. Lower portion to height of 4 ft. probably of Roman work. Height 31 ft., 18 ft. below and 13 ft. above ground level, 8 ft. thick below and 3 ft. at the top. An old drain was found at the base, probably built to take the water of the ditch (Trans. L. and M. Arch. Soc. N.S. I. (4) 356).

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