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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox church | name = St Giles-without-Cripplegate | image = St Giles' Church-without-Cripplegate Barbican London.jpg | caption = The west tower of St Giles-without-Cripplegate | denomination = [[Church of England]] | previous denomination = [[Roman Catholic]] | diocese = [[Diocese of London|London]] | parish = St Giles' with St Luke's | founded date = 1394 | style = [[English Gothic architecture#Perpendicular Gothic|Perpendicular Gothic]] | heritage designation = Grade I [[listed building]] | rector = The Rev'd Canon Jack Noble | location = [[London]], {{postcode|EC|2}} | country = England | website = http://www.stgileschurch.com }} '''St Giles-without-Cripplegate''' is an [[Church of England|Anglican]] church in the [[City of London]], located on [[Fore Street (London)|Fore Street]] within the modern [[Barbican Estate|Barbican complex]].<ref>"The City of London Churches" [[John Betjeman|Betjeman,J]] Andover, Pikin, 1967 {{ISBN|0-85372-112-2}}</ref> When built it stood without (that is, outside) the [[London Wall|city wall]], near the [[Cripplegate]].<ref>'Cripplegate, one of the 26 Wards of the City of London' [[Sir John Baddeley, 1st Baronet|Baddesley, J.J]] p96: London; Blades, East & Blades; 1921</ref> The church is dedicated to [[Saint Giles|St Giles]], [[patron saint]] of handicapped and infirm people of many different kinds. It is one of the few [[medieval]] churches left in the City of London, having survived the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]] of 1666.<ref>"The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) {{ISBN|978-1-4050-4924-5}}</ref>
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