Cripplegate

Hence the name Cripplegate, which really means the Little Gate, was applied to the church of St. Giles, and supposed to mean the gate near the church dedicated to the

The History of London Walter Besant 1868

A story runs to the effect that while Sir Richard was riding one day in London with his brother, a cripple laid hold of his horse by one of the fore legs, throwing both horse and rider to the ground, and causing the knight's death, hence the name "Cripplegate".

Exeter Sidney Heath 1907

For a conflict that is usually seen through the distancing prism of black-and-white, the film dramatically brings home the destruction wrought on London, particularly the aerial shot of a bright red bus crawling through the rubble of Cripplegate.

London Blitz film discovered 2010

From there, she was carried to the hall near unto Cripplegate.

On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

From there, she was carried to the hall near unto Cripplegate.

On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

From there, she was carried to the hall near unto Cripplegate.

On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

From there, she was carried to the hall near unto Cripplegate.

On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

The service took place at St Giles 'Cripplegate, London, where Sir Derek Jacobi read the Archbishop's chosen text from Milton's 1667 epic poem' Paradise Lost '.

Archbishop preaches about John Milton 2008

The street itself, which ran through the miserable, crime-infested ward of Cripplegate, had attracted hack writers since Elizabethan times.

Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008

A man, being drunk and it being late at night (another of his man's reports), falls asleep in a doorway in Cripplegate.

Nobel Lecture - Literature 2003 2003