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St Giles-without-Cripplegate is an Anglican church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex. [1] When built it stood without (that is, outside) the city wall, near the Cripplegate. [2] The church is dedicated to St Giles, patron saint of handicapped and infirm people of many different kinds.
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. [1] The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions .
Before bombing during the Second World War, the street extended from Redcross Street to Finsbury Pavement. [3] Fore Street, on 25 August 1940, was the first place in the City of London to be hit by a German bomb during the Second World War, just before the start of the London Blitz proper. A plaque on the wall of Roman House, on the corner with ...
The origin of the English word barbican is thought to be found in either Persian or Arabic (see here or here).. Paul Deschamps (1888–1974) interpreted the Arabic word 'bashura[h]' as used in 13th-century chronicles to mean barbican, a defensive structure placed ahead of a gate but this has been debunked, 'bashura' denoting rather an entire section of the outer fortifications, which may ...
The Blitz, explained The German air force’s bombing of London from Sept. 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, left about 43,500 people dead and many more homeless. The attack campaign became known as "the ...
At 00:15 on 28 August 1940, [35] during the pre-wave of bombing before the Blitz, buildings and parts of the wall were destroyed between Fore Street and St. Alphage's churchyard gardens around Cripplegate. [36] This revealed parts of the wall unseen for over 300 years as the rubble of buildings destroyed around it were removed.
It forms part of the Barbican estate, and lies to the west of Wood Street. The Worshipful Company of Barbers owns Barber-Surgeons' Hall, which was established in Monkwell Street in the 14th century. The Hall survived the Great Fire, but was destroyed by enemy bombing in the London Blitz in the Second World War.
“Blitz” is a predominantly fictional story, although its characters and events are based on meticulous research. George, for instance, was inspired by a photograph McQueen came across of “a ...