A visit to St Giles without Cripplegate in the Barbican

Surrounded by the brutalist Barbican estate is a medieval church, one of the few to survive the Great Fire of London and an unexpected link with Tower Bridge.There’s likely been a church on this spot since Saxon times, and was rebuilt in the Norman style shortly after the conquest, but the current church that you can see was built in the 1390s. The tower is younger though, as it was added in 1682, and although the core of the church is around 630 years old, it’s seen a lot of changes