Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street.
Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here and it is here that the Samuel Pepys Club hold a memorial service each year, close to the date of Samuel's death.
Spitalfield's Life have a good post on Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St Olave Hart Street - church
This is visually just a modern information board but the information is more ...
The Parish Hall of St Olave Hart Street This Hall which stands in part on the...
'The Uncommerical Traveller' was the name of articles that Dickens wrote for ...
The church, dating back to the 9th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The parsonage survived until at least 1762.
Minister at New Court, Carey Street 1759-99, following on from Thomas Bradbury, and succeeded by Dr Robert Winter, his nephew, and Bradbury’s grandson. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
A gateway, it is the only complete remaining building of Barking Abbey. Built in the 14th century and reconstructed in 1460, it now forms the main entrance to the churchyard of St Margaret's Churc...
