St Botolph's-without-Aldersgate is a Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 church on Aldersgate

Aldersgate

Aldersgate was a gate in the London Wall in the City of London, which has given its name to a ward and Aldersgate Street, a road leading north from the site of the gate, towards Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington.-History:...

 Street in the City of London

City of London

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, dedicated to St Botolph. The church is renowned for its beautiful interior and historic organ.

The first church was built during the reign of Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....

 and was a Cluniac

Cluniac Houses in Britain

In the Middle Ages, from the 11th century, the Christian Cluniac order established a number of religious houses in the kingdoms of England and Scotland....

 priory with attached hospital for the poor. The buildings were located outside the city wall

London Wall

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. In the 15th century, Henry V

Henry V of England

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 seized the property on the grounds that it was not English and granted it to the parish of St.