Mural

St Olaf House - St Olave

Inscription

Saint Olave King of Norway

Site: St Olaf House (2 memorials)

SE1, Tooley Street, St Olaf House

This striking Art Deco building was designed by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, 1928-32 as HQ for the Hay's Wharf Company and built on the site of St Olave church.  It is listed Grade II* and now, 2013, used by London Bridge Private Hospital.

The plaque is on the right corner of the building. The large mosaic drawing is at first floor level on the left corner - in our picture you can just see Olave's left leg. 

A London Inheritance has photos of this building from the river.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Olaf House - St Olave

Subjects commemorated i

King Olaf II of Norway

King of Norway 1015 - 1028.  Before becoming king he was in London fighting t...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Olaf House - St Olave

Also at this site i

St Olaf House - plaque

St Olaf House - plaque

The "recreation ground in Tanner Street, SE1" is Tanner Street Park.

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Nearby Memorials

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St Mary's trompe l'oeil - Unknown 3

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Hitchcock mosaics 03 - Hitchcock at Work

Hitchcock mosaics 03 - Hitchcock at Work

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Hitchcock mosaics 06 - The Pleasure Garden, 1926

Hitchcock mosaics 06 - The Pleasure Garden, 1926

E11, Church Lane, Leytonstone tube station

6 artists/craftspeople and 5 organisations are named as creating this Gallery of 17 murals. Rather than repeat this information on all 17...

1 subject commemorated
St Mary's trompe l'oeil - Unknown 1

St Mary's trompe l'oeil - Unknown 1

W2, St Mary's Square, Blossom Lower School

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