St Botolph Aldersgate, Middlesex Genealogy

St Botolph Aldersgate, the church of, is situated at the southeast corner of Little Britain, and Aldersgate Street Without, received its name from St. Botolph, a British St. born in Cornwall, and from its contiguity to the ancient Alder's Gate. Although the fire in 1666 did not reach the ancient church, yet it was so decayed that a part of it was rebuilt in 1757, and Farber repaired and beautified in 1829. It was anciently rectory, the advowson of which was in the dean and canons of St. Martin's Legrand, but being for some time an appropriated, Richard the second, in 1399, gave the income to the Dean for perpetual anniversary for his deceased consort Queen Ann