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7 unusual facts about St Giles in the Fields


Bussy D'Ambois

Brice Stratford directed the second modern production of "Bussy D'Ambois" (as well as performing in the title role) at St Giles in the Fields (Chapman's burial site) in the Autumn of 2013, as part of the Owle Schreame theatre company's "Cannibal Valour Rep Season" of obscure classical theatre.

John Oldcastle

King Henry, forewarned of their intention by a spy, moved to London, and when the Lollards assembled in force in St Giles's Fields on 10 January they were easily dispersed by the king and his forces.

Marianne Suhr

In October 2005, Suhr joined Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, at St Giles in the Fields, London, to launch a new maintenance project for the capital's historic churches.

Meux's Brewery

At Henry Meux's Horse Shoe brewery in St Giles in the Fields, corroded hoops on a large vat prompted the sudden release of about 7,600 barrels of porter.

Philip Audinet

Audinet died in London 18 December 1837, and was buried in the church of St Giles in the Fields.

St. George's, Bloomsbury

The Commissioners for the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711 realised that, due to rapid development in the Bloomsbury area during the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries, the area (then part of the parish of St Giles in the Fields) needed to be split off and given a parish church of its own.

West Street Chapel

It is no longer used as a church but has a commemorative plaque and its pulpit (used by John and Charles Wesley between 1741 and 1793) is now in the nearby St Giles in the Fields.


Commission for Building Fifty New Churches

The Commission funded in part the rebuilding of five other churches – St George Gravesend, St George the Martyr Southwark, St Giles in the Fields, St Mary Magdalen Woolwich and St Michael, Cornhill.

Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores

Robert Leslie of Kinclaven, Perthshire, and of Westminster, London (c. 1598 - c. 1675), married first Frances, widow of Sir John Pakington and daughter of John and Dorothy (Puckering) Ferrers, and married second, at St Giles in the Fields, London, on 4 November 1633, Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Pigott) Bassett

Simon Edy

He begged outside the churchyard of St Giles in the Fields and was a well-known figure, being portrayed by artists including John Seago and Thomas Rowlandson.

Thomas Nabbes

The play received its historical world premiere on Friday 18th October (2013) at St Giles in the Fields Church, the burial site of the author, directed by Brice Stratford as part of the Owle Schreame theatre company's Cannibal Valour Rep Season of obscure classical productions.


see also

John Gally Knight

He was the eldest son of Rev. Henry Gally, rector of St. Giles-in-the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex and educated at Eton College (1753–57) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1757), where he was awarded LLB in 1764 and elected fellow in 1764.