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.  
     
  EAST WINDOW - Lower lights  
 
  1. St George  
    Argent a cross gules  
       
  2. 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  
       
  3. St Anselm  
    Archbishop of Canterbury, as above  
    Ensigned with a mitre vert trimmed argent  
       
  3. 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  
       
  4. 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.    
     
  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    
         
FROBISHER SPEED=DRAPER
         
  WEST WINDOW  
     
  8. 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    
     
  9. 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  
         

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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)  
       
  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
         
  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  
     
 
 
 
Photos: 14 Jan 2007

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 Edited: 20/02/2007