Our Location

The Parish of St Giles' with St Luke's is unique in the City of London Deanery in that people live here. There is a large settled residential community with some people able to trace their roots back 400 years in the neighbourhood. There are many children and young people coming into the parish to attend three primary schools, a special needs school, and an independent girls' school, as well as our own lovely C of E Primary School: St Luke's Old Street.

There is also a significant proportion of elderly people either living on the estates or coming in each day to centres and lunch clubs. Whitecross Street which runs north of the Barbican Centre has a weekday food market with a wide variety of high-quality food on offer, bringing city workers back day after day. It is also an important meeting place for the community and ensures there is still 'village' life in the heart of a capital city

Each weekday the neighbourhood is transformed by the thousands of office workers who commute to this part of the City.There is always building work being carried out, and the expansion of offices north of the square mile has changed the nature of this part of the parish.
 

The Barbican Centre, with its concert hall, theatres, cinemas and restaurants brings people here in the evenings. Seen from the Centre, St Giles is a distinctive landmark.

During term-time we enjoy the company of students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with their concert hall and theatre in Milton Court and the Cass Business School, City University London in Bunhill Row.

The new YMCA hostel in Errol Street provides a flagship hostel for young Londoners who have experienced homelessness.

Four Livery Companies have their halls in the parish, there are many civic links with the Corporation of London and St Giles is used as a polling station.

St Giles' Cripplegate Church
Fore Street
London EC2Y 8DA