St Olave Hart Street

All are welcome to join us this Holy Week & Easter for sublime choral music, thoughtful preaching and beautiful liturgy in our spectacular medieval church in the City of London. saintolave.com/index.php/2026… #lent #easter #palmsunday #holyweek #cityoflondon #squaremile #faith #choir

Palm Sunday Procession & Sung Holy Communion Sunday 29th March 2026 11.00am-12.15pm Please join us for the blessing of palms, procession and the singing of the Passion Gospel by our professional choir. Followed by tea, coffee and hot cross buns.

@dioceseoflondon @ArchdeaconLuke @churchofengland @ChurchWatchers @thecityofldn @LDN_Museum @london_archive @NorwayinUK Do join us for services throughout Holy Week and Easter: saintolave.com/index.php/2026… *SAVE THE DATE!* Sunday 21 June 2026 at 11am - Special service of Holy Communion with guests from the UK and Norway to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the laying of the restoration stone here.

In our pre-Holy Week tidy up we unearthed a bag of flags that seem to match those in the photos from the service in June 1951 when the first stone was laid by the King of Norway to mark the start of the restoration of our beautiful medieval church after the Second World War.

Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street, City of London Tonight 5.30pm-6.15pm followed by a talk Sublime music in our beautiful medieval church and the glorious liturgy of the Prayer Book. Followed by refreshments & a talk by Dr Carolyn Boulter of The Clothworkers' Company.

Our Licensed Lay Minister, Dr Jim Harris, joined Scott Mills for Breakfast on BBC Radio 2 this morning and gave today's Pause for Thought. Listen online at this link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #pauseforthought #bbcradio2 #reflection #faith

Tuesday 17th March 2026 – 5.30pm-6.30pm – Compline by Candlelight followed by Lent Talk “Our Own Church” – Commodore Ian Gibb MBE MNM Join us for Compline in our beautiful medieval crypt chapel, followed by a talk in church by Commodore Ian Gibb, Elder Brother of Trinity House

A huge thank you to Felicity, Isabella, Ruth & Eloise for the beautiful music at our service this morning for Mothering Sunday, including Stabat mater (Charpentier) & Gott ist mein hirt (Schubert) and thank you to Colin Spinks on the organ. #MotheringSunday #cityoflondonchurches

Please join us at 11am for our Sung Eucharist on Mothering Sunday. The image is a detail from the oldest surviving memorial in the church, to twice Lord Mayor Richard Haddon. onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-pray… #motheringsunday #medievalart #churchmonuments #cityoflondon

“Our Own Church”: We welcome special guest speakers from our partner organisations to talk about their lives as we explore what it means for St Olave Hart Street to be ‘our own church’ (as Samuel Pepys called it). saintolave.com/index.php/2026… #lent #trinityhouse #pepys #clothworkers

Miaow was too tired to say Morning Prayer yesterday but soon perked up when he heard birds in the churchyard! #churchcat #CatsOnX #CatsOnTwitter #londoncats #cityoflondon #stolavehartstreet

Come and Sing Sir John Stainer’s ‘The Crucifixion’ with The Hanover Choir & the choirs of St Olave Hart Street | Tuesday 31st March 2026 6pm (rehearsal), 7.30pm (performance – free to attend) saintolave.com/index.php/2026… #comeandsing #choralmusic #choir #singinginlondon #cityoflondon

Do join us for our next St Olave Lecture on 28th April. Details at this link: eventbrite.com/cc/st-olave-le…

Thanks to all who joined us yesterday for Choral Evensong followed by our first ‘St Olave Lecture’ in 40 years! Acclaimed botanist Roy Vickery spoke about Job Lousley, 'Botanist and Banker' who documented the flora he found amongst the rubble of bombed city churches like ours.

Green Shoots in the Rubble! Join us tomorrow for Choral Evensong (5.30pm) followed by a talk on Job Lousley, botanist and banker, who wrote a fascinating book on the flora that he found growing in the site of bombed City churches like ours. eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-olave-lec… @thecityofldn

This image is our beautiful window depicting famous Christian women. Find out about some of the other women connected to our parish: Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth Pepys Mary Ramsay Mother Goose #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #cityoflondon #SquareMile #fenchurchstreet

Sunday 8th March – Sung Holy Communion 11am-12pm International Women's Day Join us in our spectacular medieval church for our Sunday service at 11am, with sublime music from the Hanover Choir. Hear from a special guest speaker about Mary Hudson – our first organist (from 1781)

Thank you to Steve Duffle of SJD Signs for updating the Rectors’ Name Board in the church this week! Our record of our Rectors’ names goes back, in the case of All Hallows Staining, to 1258 and, in the case of St Olave Hart Street and St Catherine Coleman, to the early 1300s!

This week @PhillipDawson1 found this amazing photo. Remarkable that many memorials & the buildings surrounding the church survived the blitz. The restoration of this church 72 years ago is a miracle that continually inspires. Do visit & see for yourself! saintolave.com

"Marked by God's Mercy" - a Thought for the Day given during our lunchtime service on Ash Wednesday this week. You can read the text at the link below: #AshWednesday #lent #churchofengland #dioceseoflondon #jesus #christianity #faith #GoodNews onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2026/02/though…