Talk:St Giles in the Fields

Removed?
User:Neddyseagoon, you've clearly been beavering away on the St. Giles in the Fields article. As a 'newbie' (how I hate that coinage), it has been fascinating to see how Wikipedia works. At the same time time, as the original writer of the article, it has been a little disheartening to find it gutted, and elements of the sense having been removed.


 * In the first paragraph, for example, it now twice refers to its proximity to Centrepoint, and the linking irony of this being so busy whilst St. Giles was a hermit has been excised for no obvious reason. And that's just the first paragraph.
 * Reinstated, though someone may have pulled that bit on POV grounds.Neddyseagoon - talk 16:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * There are now huge chunks of text that have been lifted virtually verbatim from the church's own website, surely negating the point of Wikipedia,
 * Yes, the stuff from the website needs copyediting, but I felt it interesting nonetheless. Neddyseagoon - talk 16:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * a snotty remark about the church's preoccupation with minutiae, whilst perhaps accurate, is surely not appropriate for this style of article?
 * I think the writer may have been trying to say how the church was now Evangelical and hostile to a candlestand's Anglo-Catholic associations - I'm looking into it.Neddyseagoon - talk 16:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Hoppers 15:01, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * More amusingly, the commentary about the organ not having been spoilt by modern restoration as made rather redundant by the fact that it is currently spread over the workbenches of an organ restorer in the West Country...
 * Well, feel free to edit it again to get rid of this anomalies.Neddyseagoon - talk 16:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Article title
Is there a reason for not having this at St. Giles in the Fields (with a period after "St")? If not, it should be moved. Recury 20:45, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe the British convention (as this is a British church) is that St and other such contractions such as Mr, Dr, Jr and Mrs do not require the period. This is unlike in US English where the period is used. Since this article is about a British item the British grammar is used and so we regard St Giles as being grammatically correct. Arnie Side (talk) 20:48, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Misleading use of title
Would the individual who uses the logon id Associate Rector please explain why he/she is using this title. There has not been an associate rector at St Giles since the departure of The Rev Dr Julian Davies and it is therefore misleading to refer to oneself as Associate Rector (Interestedparty1944 (talk) 10:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC))

Poets'Church
I did attend a crisis meeting of the Poetry Society at the church a few years ago - so I can see that there is a connection between the poetry world and St Giles - but does anyone know why or how this came about? ixo (talk) 18:22, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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Very long
I have added the very long template to this article. I know a lot of effort has gone into improving this recently; however, one result has been to make the article a collection of information about the church's surrounding area and associated people. Much of this is available elsewhere on Wikipedia. The article is now too long and digressive to provide a relevant overview of its topic. At the same time, the article discusses the church's architecture only in passing; this should be its own section.

I wanted to open this to discussion before making edits myself. It would be good to check duplication against more relevant articles and move over content from the St Giles' articles where necessary. CPClegg (talk) 21:08, 7 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The artcle has certainly grown over-long and much could be moved to an expanded article on the Parish
 * As you say, there is significant overlap between the history of the church and the history of the parish because it is the church which created and gave life to the parish. Thus, deciding what qualifies as parish history and the history of the church itself is often not perfectly clear. Wycliffe, the Babington Plot, The Civil War are examples of events which affected the church, the parish and the nation at the same time.
 * The plague is another. The victims caught the plague in the overcrowded parish, died, and were buried in the churchyard leading to the decay of the church building. All interlinked.
 * .The portion on the Poet's church is a good candidate for shoretning. much of the information can be found on the respective poet's articles. William Harold Amos (talk) 13:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)