St. Olave (Hart Street)
The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, dedicatred to St. Olaf, is found on
the south side of Hart Street and the northwest
corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded
and built before the Norman conquest of 1066 (Harben). Aside from mentioning the nobility buried in
St. Olave’s, Stow is kind enough to describe
the church as
a proper [i.e. appropriate] parrish(Stow). Samuel Pepys is buried in this church.
St. Olave, Hart Street features on the Agas map west of the label
Herte Str.,its bell tower (marked
A) and nave protruding above the surrounding buildings. It is drawn in the same geographical position as the same church on Benjamin Cole’s 1754 engraving of Tower Street Ward (Cole).
See also St. Olave’s modern church website
References
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Cole, Benjamin.Tower Street Ward with their Divisions into Pariſhes according to a New Survey.
London, 1754. Remediated by British Library.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents: