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.
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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 ...
Born Totteridge. Ordained into the Church of England in 1833, the same year he married Caroline Sargent, who died in 1837, childless. Member of the Oxford Movement and converted to Catholicism in...
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford. 1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages. Like many...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent
Cricketer and bishop. Born David Stuart Sheppard in Reigate, As a cricketer he played for Cambridge University, Sussex and England. He converted to Evangelical Christianity while at Cambridge, and ...
Built in 1901-1903. by Arthur Keen, architect for the Baptist Union and restored in 1946. Now listed.
Elizabeth I's last Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace used as a summer retreat by the Archbishops of Canterbury was in Croydon and here in 1596 Whitgift founded an eponymous school. Memorable da...
Portland stone, 6 tonnes. CWO has more information about this bench.
Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary of Biography; Wikipedia differs). Leader of the London County Council, 1934–1940. As Minister of Supply briefly in 1940...
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