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Interior
Looking down the nave	The high altar

Altar cross and decalogue	Altar pediment with pelican

South gallery ceiling	South gallery

North aisle	High altar with painting of Aaron to right

Details & artefacts
organ detail	organ pipes

memorial detail	ornate grille (floor detail)

plaque to John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia (killed by natives)	The Resurrection carving from the 17th century gate; based on Michelangelo's painting of the resurrection in the Sistine chapel

top of Pendrell tomb (preserver of Charles II)	Wesleys' pulpit from West Street Wesley chapel

Earnshaw memorial	Flitcroft's model

Flaxman memorial	Baltimore memorial

Frances Kniveton memorial	Balmain memorial - surgeon general of New South Wales

Roger Lestrange memorial	Chapman memorial - poet and translater of Homer. Designed by Inigo Jones.

	plaque to Andrew Marvell	memorial detail

Font by John Soane	Font detail	Font detail - greek key design

St Giles plaque	St Giles seal	Chair detail

Exterior
Gardens with view of south side and vestry house	South churchyard gardens	View of east end

St Giles and Centre Point	View from St Giles High Street

print of 17th century Resurrection gate	Resurrection gate of 1800	Main entrance today

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