St Giles Church Cripplegate

City of London

ST GILES CHURCH, CRIPPLEGATE

This Church was severely damaged in 1940. The heraldry recorded here consists mostly of post-war glass and restored remains of the monuments.

There are two accounts of the older monuments: William Miller, London before the Fire, with an historical account of ... St Giles without Cripplegate, 1867; and John James Baddiley, An account of the Church and Parish of St Giles without Cripplegate..., 1887-88. The latter gives more detail, and notes the lost monuments for Frobisher, Glover, Milton, and those for Staines and Speed, which survive in part. Although the heraldic information is limited, such as there is has been included, together with illustrations.

EAST WINDOW - Lower lights

St George

Argent a cross gules

St Alphege

Azure an episcopal staff in pale or ensigned with a cross paty argent surmounted of a pall of the last charged with four crosses paty fitchy sable and edged and fringed of the second (Archbishop of Canterbury)

Ensigned with a mitre gules trimmed argent

St Anselm

Archbishop of Canterbury, as above

Ensigned with a mitre vert trimmed argent

Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester

Gules two keys endorsed in bend the uppermost or the lower argent between them interposed a sword in bend sinister of the third hilted and pomelled of the second (See of Winchester)

Ensigned with a mitre azure trimmed or

St Bartholomew

Per pale argent and sable a chevron counterchanged (St Bartholomew's Hospital)


	EAST WINDOW - Middle lights

	5.	St Paul
		Gules two swords in saltire argent hilted and pomelled or (See of London)

	SOUTH AISLE - East wall

	6.	Carved achievement
		Quarterly; 1st and 4th: Sable a chevron between three fleams argent; 2nd and 3rd: Per pale argent and vert a spatula in pale azure surmounted of a rose gules charged with another argent, the former regally crowned proper; Between the four quarters a cross gules charged with a lion passant or (Worshipful Company of Barbers)
		Crest: An opinicus statant head bowed wings endorsed or
		Supporters: Two lynxes argent semy of roundels or, argent, azure, gules and vert ducally gorged and chained argent
		Mantling: Gules and argent
		Motto: De praescientia Dei


	SOUTH AISLE

	7.	Stone tablet
		Ermine on a fess engrailed between three griffins' heads erased sable beaked and each charged with an escallop or a talbot courant argent collared gules leashed argent twisted into a hank at the end (Frobisher)
		Crest: A unicorn's head erased azure armed or maned argent ducally gorged of the second
		Mantling: Gules and argent
		Motto: forte adjuvat ipse deus
		Sir Martin Frobisher of Normanton WRY (1535-1594), navigator and a hero of the action against the Spanish Armada, 1588.
		The previous Frobisher memorial is illustrated by Baddiley (below)


	8.	Restored memorial
		Gules on a chief or two swallows in flight sable (Speede); impaling: Azure a chevron ermine between three mullets of six points or (Draper)
		Crest: A unicorn's head erased azure armed or maned argent ducally gorged of the second
		Mantling: Gules and argent
		Motto: forte adjuvat ipse deus
		John Speed, born 1552 in Farndon CHS, citizen, Merchant Taylor, historian, cartographer, who married 25 Jan 1574/75 at Christ Church Greyfriars Susanna Draper and died 28 Jul 1629
		The original Speed monument is illustrated by Baddiley (below)


FROBISHER	SPEED=DRAPER


FROBISHER 1888	SPEED 1888

WEST WINDOW

Argent a cross gules in the dexter chief a dagger palewise of the second point in chief (City of London)

Crest: On a peer's helm and a wreath of the colours, A dragon's wing argent charged with a cross gules

Supporters: Two dragons argent wings expanded and charged with a cross gules

Mantling: Gules and argent

Motto: Domine dirige nos

The Corporation of the City of London

Azure an episcopal staff in pale ensigned with a cross paty or surmounted of a pall argent charged with four crosses paty fitchy sable fringed of the second (Archbishop of Canterbury)

Suspended from a pastoral cross

10.

Gules two swords in saltire argent hilted and pomelled or (See of London)

Suspended from a crozier

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY

CITY OF LONDON

SEE OF LONDON

11.

Sable a chevron ermine between three crescents argent (Glover)

Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, born 1543/44 in Ashford KEN, died 1588

12.

Argent a double-headed eagle gules armed azure (Milton of Thame)

John Milton, the poet, born in London 1608, died 8 November 1674

13.

Argent a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable (Egerton)

Ensigned with an Earl's coronet

For John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater, patron of Milton, who died 1649; he is one of several Earls of Bridgewater buried in St Giles.

14.

Sable a lion rampant argent armed and langued or (Williams, for Cromwell)

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector 1653-58, born Huntingdon 25 Apr 1599, died 3 Sep 1658; he was married in St Giles 22 August 1620 to Elizabeth Bourchier

15.

Ermine on a fess engrailed between three griffins' heads erased sable beaked and each charged with an escallop or a talbot courant argent collared gules leashed argent twisted into a hank at the end (Frobisher)

See monument, no.7

GLOVER

MILTON

EGERTON
EARL OF BRIDGEWATER

CROMWELL

FROBISHER

NORTH AISLE

16.

Wall monument with bust and tablet (restored fragments)

Shield with hatching and traces of paint:

Argent two bends engrailed sable (Staines)

impaling two coats per fess:

Per chevron azure and ermine in chief two eagles wings disclosed [or] (Stevens)

Or a double-headed lion [?gules] (Mason)

Helm decapitated and crest missing

Shield of Corporation of London (see 8)

Sir William Staines, Lord Mayor in 1800-01, who married (as a widower) in St Giles 19 Mar 1794 Henne Maria Stevens, and at Holy Trinity Clapham on 16 May 1805 Elizabeth née Mason widow of William Fosset, and died 11 Sep 1807 aged 76

(Vicar General and Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations; PCC Wills; International Genealogical Index)

Baddiley illustrates the monument as it was in 1888 (below)

17.

Window

Argent a chevron between three cinquefoils gules (Alleyn)

Crest: Out of flames a dexter hand holding a heart all proper

Mantling: Gules and argent

Edward Alleyn 1566-1626, actor, proprietor of the Fortune Theatre, Golden Lane, founder of Dulwich College.


STAINES=STEVENS/MASON	ALLEYN

STAINES 1888

	SWORD STAND; against south pier second from east

	18.	Shield of Corporation of London (see 8)

	19.	Gules a lion rampant between three crescents argent on a chief of masonry two lances in saltire all proper
		Crest: On a knight's helm, Out of a mural crown two arms embowed armoured holding two lances as in the arms all proper
		Mantling: Gules and argent
		Sir Peter Studd, Lord Mayor 1970

	20.	Argent a sword palewise point in chief between three crosses couped gules on a chief of the second a stag trippant between two garbs or, in centre chief the Badge of Ulster
		Crest: On a knight's helm, On a wreath of the colours, Between two crosses couped gules a cubit arm palewise proper vested azure cuffed argent holding an open book proper clasped or
		Sir John Baddeley Bt, Lord Mayor 1921

	21.	Argent two bars sable gutty de larmes between three cinquefoils pierced in bend of the second
		Crest: On a knight's helm, On a wreath of the colours, A lion rampant or tail nowed armed and langued gules its sinister paw resting on a cinquefoil sable its dexter paw holding a scroll argent
		Sir Harry Twyford, Lord Mayor 1937

	22.	Bendy azure and or on a chief gules a wreath between two spurs straps loose of the second
		Crest: On a knight's helm, On a wreath of the colours, On a fasces or strapped argent axehead to the sinister a spur as in the arms between two wings displayed gules each charged with a wreath as in the arms
		Sir Henry Knight, Lord Mayor 1882

	23.	Gules two griffins passant in pale argent semy of roundels or, argent, azure, gules, sable and vert winged and beaked or armed and langued azure, dimidiating: Azure a lion passant argent semy as before armed gules maned or
		Crest: On a knight's helm, On a wreath or, gules and azure, [crest missing]
		Sir Allan Davis, Lord Mayor 1985

	24.	Argent on a pile barry wavy of eight azure and silver between two oak trees eradicated proper a lion rampant gules
		Crest: On a knight's helm, On a wreath of the colours, Out of a log fesswise proper a sword palewise point uppermost or between two oak trees proper
		Sir Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor 1962


STUDD		KNIGHT
BADDELEY	TWYFORD	DAVIS	PERRING

Baddiley describes the same sword stand with the following arms:

22.

As Above

25.

Argent two bends engrailed sable (Staines)

Crest: Difficult to interpret; according to Burke it ought to be: A dexter hand issuant from a cloud proper holding a garland vert

Sir William Staines (see no.16)

26.

Quarterly argent and or, in the 1st and 4th an oak tree on a mound vert fructed proper, in the 2nd and 3rd a bull's head erased sable charged on the neck with a bezant, over all the mace of the Lord Mayor of London in pale (Wood of Hatherley GLS)

Crest: Out of a mural crown argent a demi wild man wreathed about the temples with oak fructed, in the dexter hand an oak tree eradicated and fructed, in the sinister a club, all proper

Sir Matthew Wood Bt, Lord Mayor 1815-17

27.

Azure a bend between four mullets argent, a chief chequy of the first and second (Challis)

Crest: A lion rampant holding in both paws the fasces

Sir Thomas Challis, Lord Mayor 1852-53


	CITY
	KNIGHT
	L: STAINES R: WOOD
	CHALLIS

The following monuments are described by Baddiley but have not survived:

28.

For Thomas Busby, buried 11 Jul 1575

Arms: on a chief between three annulets or wreaths a lion passant guardant (?)

29.

Edward (Citizen Brewer) and Ann Harvist, died 14 Mar 1610/11 and 24 May 1610

Arms: On a chevron between three garbs three tuns; intended for the Worshipful Company of Brewers

30.

Richard and Elizabeth Smith, died 26 Mar 1675 and 25 May 1664

Arms: Per chevron argent and sable three anvils counterchanged


BUSBY	HARVIST	SMITH

Photos: 14 Jan 2007

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Edited: 31/01/2012