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[2]. . Its churchyard was combined with those of St Leonard, Foster Lane and Christchurch Newgate Street into Postman's Park[3], 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[4]
- 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
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 Old Churches of London" Cobb,G: London, Batsford,1942
- ^ "London:the City Churches" Pevsner,N/Bradley,S : New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550
- ^ The City of London Churches Betjeman,J Andover, Pikin, 1967 ISBN 0853721122
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