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History
It was originally founded as a chapel attached to the leper hospital in 1101, and became a parish church after the Reformation in 1547
It is the oldest church in the Bloomsbury area
The parish of St Giles was poor and overcrowded for centuries; it is where the Great Plague began in 1665
Despite this, the church has many historical assocations with the rich and famous
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What was reforming about it?
The parish has been active in organising charitable relief and local education for centuries
Where in Bloomsbury
The current building on what is now St Giles’ High Street dates from the 1730s
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Rowland Dobie, The History of the United Parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (1829)
Archives
Parish records are still held on site, along with some administrative records of the church itself
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