St Olave Hart Street

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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Thought for the Day-Marked by God's Mercy Detail of East Window of St Olave Hart Street A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service at St Olave Hart Street on Ash Wednesday 18...

"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
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Thought for the Day-Critical Examination De Pannenkoekenbakster (The Pancake Maker), Jan Miense Molenaer, 1645 A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service at St Olave Hart St...

Critical Examination - of pancakes and of ourselves! The text of aThought for the Day given at our lunchtime service on Shrove Tuesday this week is at the link below: onebodyonebread.blogspot.com/2026/02/thou... #lent #shrovetuesday #cityoflondonchurches #cityoflondon #jesus #christianity

A huge thank you to Henry for cooking all the pancakes last night and to all who came to Compline by Candlelight in the Crypt. Join us today at 12.30pm for Sung Holy Communion & the Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday at and for Compline on Tuesday evening at 5.30pm next week. #lent #christianity

Join us on Tuesday for Holy Communion (12.30pm-12.55pm) and Compline by Candlelight in our medieval crypt chapel (5.30pm-5.45pm) followed by a Pancake Party (6pm-7.30pm) saintolave.com/index.php/20... #shrovetuesday #pancakeparty @squaremilechurches.bsky.social @thecityofldn.bsky.social

Unwind with sublime music from our choir in the beautiful surroundings of our medieval church.

Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street
Tuesday 10th February 2026 at 5.30pm

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Yesterday we were pleased to host a recording of BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship, exploring St Matthew's Gospel. It was a joy to introduce the programme and read the bible passages and a privilege to hear the fantastic Andrew Earis, Dai Woolridge and Reverend Laura Luz

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Thank you to Danny and Karl at Multiplex and Campbell at Yard Nine for taking so much time to show us around the 50 Fenchurch site and the tower of All Hallows Staining, which is part of our parish.

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Thanks to our choir, guest readers & all who came to our lunchtime celebration of Candlemas. Join us every Tuesday:

0830-Morning Prayer (15mins)
1230-Holy Communion (25 mins then lunch & St Olave Singers rehearsal)
1730-Compline/Choral Evensong

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Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street
Tuesday 10th February 2026 5.30pm-6.15pm

Join us for our next service of Evensong with sublime music in our beautiful medieval church. From March we will double our frequency of Evensongs with the choir here on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month!

Thank you to the Dean, Virgers and Chaplain
@stpaulscathedral.bsky.social for welcoming a group of us to Evensong on Monday when our parish was prayed for by name in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer. Well done to the choir of Holland Park School who were singing the office and did so brilliantly.

Congratulations to Georgia, baptised last Sunday. Join us this Sunday at 11am for Sung Holy Communion with beautiful music from our choir in our spectacular medieval church.

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#christianity #cityoflondon #squaremile #holycommunion #baptism #jesus #faith #choir #church

Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street
Tuesday 13th January 2026 5.30pm-6.15pm

All are welcome to join us this evening as our monthly service of Choral Evensong returns with music for Epiphanytide.

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Happy New Year! Please join us for our special services and events at St Olave Hart Street this month. Details at the link below!

All are welcome to our special service of Holy Communion with Baptism followed by a Parish Party on Sunday 11 January at 11am:

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We wish all our friends around the world a very Happy Christmas! Thank you to all who joined us for Midnight Mass and for our Sung Holy Communion on Christmas Day, over 100 people in total. Thank you to all who helped to welcome visitors and serve refreshments & to our wonderful choir.

We're answering your FAQs about Advent and Christmas. 💭

Head to our channel to find out who Santa (or Saint Nicholas) was, why we have Christmas trees, and why you might see clergy wearing pink on the third Sunday of Advent.

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A clip from the start of our Lunchtime Carol Service - with lovely music from Colin on the organ, Laura on trumpet and our wonderful Tuesday lunchtime choir. The choir rehearse every week after our lunchtime service, rehearsals start 1.15pm. Join us next year! www.saintolave.com

We welcomed 115 to our lunchtime carol service on Tuesday, thank you to all who came! Special thanks to Colin on the organ and our wonderful choir and our trumpeter Laura. Join us for Choral Midnight Mass by Candlelight at 11.30pm on Christmas Eve! #christmas #advent #cityoflondon #towerhill

Thanks to Giovanni (pictured here with our Parish Administrator Georgia) and all the team at Novotel London Tower Bridge for their kind donations. We asked the rough sleepers who regularly call at the church what they would find useful. Fresh pillows and hygiene products were top of the list.

Here's one of the wassailing songs that we learnt! Thanks to everyone for joining in!

Thanks to all who joined us for our inaugural 'Pepys Parish Wassail' on Friday 12th December, singing carols and spreading good cheer around some of the pubs of the parish. Special thanks to Colin Spinks and our choir and to Samuel Pepys himself aka Thomas Barclay Matchett!
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Tuesday 9th December 5.30pm-6.30pm
Nine Lessons & Carols by Candlelight

Join us in our beautiful medieval church for a traditional candlelit service of music & readings with our robed choir, followed by mulled wine & mince pies.

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#ninelessons #choir #carols

Thank you to everyone who helped decorate the church on Sunday to mark the start of the season of Advent.

Please join us for our special events and services over the next few weeks:

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Our Director of Music, Colin Spinks and the St Olave Scholars sang at the switching on of the Christmas Lights at Ten Trinity Square Private Club last week, lifting the spirits and spreading good cheer with their musical prowess and snazzy threads! #carolsinging #christmascheer #cityoflondon

A snippet of just some of the glorious bellringing this weekend to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the University of London Society of Change Ringers, who have made St Olave Hart Street their home for the past seventy one years.

Reverend Phillip Dawson

#bellringing #churchbells #quarterpeal

Join us for traditional candlelit carol services, thoughtful preaching & sublime choral music in our beautiful medieval church, where all are always welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/advent-ch...

#advent #christmas #cityoflondon #towerhill #carols #christmascarols #ninelessons #midnightmass

Beautifully sung, thank you!

Choral Evensong at St Olave Hart Street
Tonight - Tuesday 11 November 5.30pm-6.15pm

Join us in our beautiful medieval church for submlime music and the timeless liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer.

#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay