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 ...
We found a local newspaper article (Islington Gazette - Tuesday 16 June 1903) reporting on the marriage, the previous Saturday, of Florence Minnie, daughter of Joseph Toomer, of Falkland Road, Harr...
LMA refers to this man in association with leases for Holy Trinity School, 1915 - 26, giving his address as 45 Thornhill Road (the vicarage). Kelly's Directory helpfully informs that from 1926 he h...
Individuals and groups were sent to places where a need was seen for Christian instruction, normally in foreign parts. The Moravian Church began sending out missionaries in 1732. The China Inland...
Archdeacon of London and Assistant Bishop of London.
Built by Thomas Henry Wyatt, in the Italianate style. It became a royal garrison church in 1928, following a visit by King George V. It contains many mosaics, particularly one by Antonio Salviati, ...
