Editing St Giles-without-Cripplegate (section)

==Notable people associated with the church==
[[File:Chancel of the Church of Saint Giles-without-Cripplegate (01).jpg|thumb|right|The chancel of the Church of St Giles Cripplegate]]
* [[John Field (divine)|John Field]], curate of the church, c. 1570
* [[John Foxe]], author of the ''[[Foxe's Book of Martyrs|Book of Martyrs]]'', surrogate for Crowley c. 1565 and buried in the church, 1587
* [[Robert Crowley (1517–1588)|Robert Crowley]], rector of St Giles's and Protestant polemicist was buried in the church in 1588
* [[Thomas Deloney]], English novelist and balladist, had his son baptised in the church in 1586
* [[Lancelot Andrewes]], rector of the church after Crowley
* [[Roger Townshend (1544–1590)|Roger Townshend]], buried in the church in 1590
* Sir [[Martin Frobisher]], captain who fought against the [[Spanish Armada]], buried in the church, 1595<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Frank |title=The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher, Knight: Containing a Narrative of the Spanish Armada |date=1878 |publisher=Longmans, Green |page=335 |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_07843/page/n383/mode/2up |access-date=26 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
*Sir [[Francis Willoughby (1547–1596)|Francis Willoughby]], industrialist and coalowner, buried in the church in 1596
* [[Nathaniel Eaton]], first schoolmaster of [[Harvard College]], baptised in the church in 1610{{dub|date=June 2023}}
* [[Oliver Cromwell]], military commander and [[Lord Protector]] of England during the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]], married [[Elizabeth Bourchier]] in the church, 1620
* [[Nicholas Tooley]], Shakespearean actor, shareholder in the [[Globe Theatre]], buried 5 June 1623
* [[John Speed]], author of the'' Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'', buried in the church in 1629
* [[John Milton]], author of ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', buried in the church in 1674
* [[John Bunyan]], author of ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'', attended the church
* [[Daniel Defoe]], author of ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', died in the parish, 1731
* [[Mark Catesby]], naturalist, artist, and author of ''Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands'' (1729–1747), was a parishioner and several of his children were baptised in the church, and later buried in the churchyard
* [[Rick Wakeman]], keyboardist, recorded his track "Jane Seymour" (from ''[[The Six Wives of Henry VIII (album)|The Six Wives of Henry VIII]]'') and the pipe organ parts in the third section of [[Yes (band)|Yes]] track "[[Close to the Edge (song)|Close to the Edge]]"<ref name="SW MIx">{{cite web|last=Mettler|first=Mike|title=Total 5.1 Mass Retain: Steven Wilson on Mixing Yes' Close to the Edge in Surround Sound|url=http://soundbard.com/total-5-1-mass-retain-steven-wilson-on-mixing-yes-close-to-the-edge-in-surround-sound/|work=The Sound Board|access-date=28 February 2014}}</ref> using the [[pipe organ]] in the church
* [[Jack Nitzsche]], composer, pianist, recorded "St. Giles Cripplegate" with the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] in 1972