Please join us on Sunday at 11am for Holy Communion. We welcome back our choir after their break and John and Dorothy Ind celebrating their 65th anniversay - the pic is from their wedding here - 15th April 1961. Sign up to receive our weekly email bulletin mailchi.mp/saintolave.c...
Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street, City of London Tuesday 14th April 5.30pm-6.15pm
Sublime music in our beautiful medieval church and the glorious liturgy of the Prayer Book. Followed by refreshments.
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Happy Easter!
Some pictures from our Holy Week & Easter services are now on our website. See facebook and instagram for more! saintolave.com/index.php/20...
Join us today (Tuesday 7 April) for Holy Communion at 12.30pm and Compline in the Crypt Chapel at 5.30pm.
#Easter #HappyEaster
This place is a symbol of the living hope we are called to proclaim. A pile of rubble 75 years ago until the first restoration stone was laid by the King of a foreign land. Through the grave & gate of death the green blade riseth.
Easter Vigil tonight at 7pm
Sung Holy Communion Sunday at 11am
Thank you to Jim Harris our Lay Minister for leading moving reflections for Good Friday this afternoon and to all who read the lessons. Please join us tomorrow for our Vigil and the first Communion of Easter at 7pm, beginning with the lighting of the fire in the churchyard.
Thank you to all who joined us last night for our first in-person Maundy Thursday liturgy for several years, which concluded with a watch at the altar of repose in our Crypt Chapel. (The words inscribed on the altar are the last words of Saint Olaf). saintolave.com/index.php/20...
April & May - Special Services & Events
Please take a note of our special events and services coming up after Easter & join us when you can:
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Huge thanks to everyone who joined us to “Come & Sing” Sir John Stainer’s 'The Crucifixion' on Tuesday 31 March – both the singers and the congregation! The first of what we hope will be a renewed annual tradition. @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social @churchofengland.org @thecityofldn.bsky.social #choir
Join us tomorrow in our spectacular medieval church for this special performance. Admission free.
Tuesday 31st March 2026 7.30pm-8.45pm
The Crucifixion by Sir John Stainer
The Hanover Choir with the St Olave Singers
Crispin Lewis, Bass & Nick Dykes Tenor
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A huge thank you to Dr Carolyn Boulter DL for joining us last Tuesday and speaking with such passion about the connection between The Clothworkers' Company and this church and about her own life and faith, as part of our 'Our Own Church' series of talks.
Thank you to Jack for this lovely pic from the start of our Palm Sunday procession. Thank you to Colin and the choir for all the beautiful music. Please join us on Tuesday at 12.30pm for our lunchtime service of Holy Communion.
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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 in our beautiful medieval church.
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#lent #easter #palmsunday
A prayer for the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Almighty God, you call your Church in every age to proclaim the gospel of Christ: look with mercy upon your servant Sarah, and grant that, as deacon, she may care for those in need, as priest, sustain us with the ministry of word and sacrament, and as bishop, guard the faith and build up the body of Christ in holiness. Give her wisdom and kindness that as archbishop, she may promote unity, seek truth, and lead us in the way of righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Join us in prayer for the Archbishop of Canterbury on the day of her installation. 🙏
*SAVE THE DATE!* Please join us if you are able on Sunday 21 June 2026 at 11am for a 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 WW2
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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. The service will be 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: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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.
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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 by Candlelight 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 #choir
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.
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The sun was out earlier in the week and the daffodils started to bloom! Read this week's email bulletin from St Olave Hart Street, browse our newsletter archive and sign up to receive future editions at this link:
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“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).
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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)
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Do join us for our next St Olave Lecture on 28th April. Details at this link: www.eventbrite.com/cc/st-olave-...
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 recorded the flora that he found growing in the site of bombed City churches like ours.
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Sunday 8th March – Sung Holy Communion 11am-12pm
with special guest speaker for International Women’s Day
Sublime music from the Hanover Choir & a special guest speaker about Mary Hudson – our first organist (from 1781) and one of the first female organists in the country.
#InternationalWomensDay
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 @phillipdawson.bsky.social found this amazing photo. The restoration of this church 72 years ago is a miracle that continually inspires. Do visit us & see for yourself! www.saintolave.com
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