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Image:IMG 4461.JPG The west front of the church, as reworked on the widening of Aldersgate
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 c.1000 and was a Cluniac priory with attached hospital for the poor[1]. The buildings were located outside the city wall[1]. 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[1]. 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[1].
The present church was built 1788-91. Its churchyard was combined with those of St Leonard, Foster Lane and Christchurch Newgate Street into Postmans Park, 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[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d 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 City of London Churches Betjeman,J Andover, Pikin, 1967 ISBN 0853721122
[edit] External links
Church Website
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