St Olave Hart Street

04/06/2026

Miaow is enjoying the wonderful scent from the bouquets placed in church for the visit of The Princess Royal as Master of Trinity House yesterday for the annual Trinitytide Service.

04/06/2026

Such a joy to welcome The Princess Royal to St Olave Hart Street for the annual Trinitytide Service in her capacity as Master of Trinity House and to read of her charity and generosity to others en-route. The 'woman from the church' mentioned in the article to whom she gave her umbrella was the Acting Bishop of London who was the guest preacher at the service and it was lovely to welcome Bishop Emma here for the first time.

The Princess Royal was walking in the wet conditions outside St Olaves Church in central London when she noticed a Church member covering her head with a folder.

03/06/2026

A huge thank you all who joined us for compline yesterday followed by our latest St Olave Lecture and especially to our guest speaker Professor Kate Loveman for talking about her fantastic book "The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary" and fielding so many questions. Please join us when our lectures resume in September after the summer break. https://saintolave.com/index.php/st-olave-lectures/

Please join us at 5.30pm on Tuesday 14th July for Choral Evensong when Samuel Pepys own Prayer Book will be on display. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pepys-choral-evensong-in-his-own-church-tickets-1988132925098

02/06/2026

St Olave Lecture - Tuesday 2nd June at 6.00pm
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

Please join us this evening for our next St Olave Lecture. We welcome Professor Kate Loveman talking about her fantastic book "The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary". Compline at 5.30pm-5.50pm, talk from 6pm. Tickets £5 available at this link or on the door: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/st-olave-lecture-the-strange-history-of-samuel-pepyss-diary-tickets-1984142579868

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02/06/2026

A huge thank you to all who joined us on Saturday for the world premiere of 'Incendiary' and to Hambletts Productions, Grace Davidson, Edward Bennett and lute player Daniel Murphy for bringing to life Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys on stage and to Deirdre Shiels for adapting Pepys' diary for the purpose. Some pics of the performance coming soon.

A special thank you to everyone who supported the church stall at the interval and to Tom, Debbie and Henry for running it. We raised enough funds to purchase these new resources for young people. Now we have a basket of books and other resources for parents to use when they come to church with their children.

30/05/2026

Thank you to Ben Schoeman (piano) and David Pinoit (cello) for the fantastic twilight concert on Friday night with a programme including Bach, Saint-Saens and Rachmaninoff. Please join us again on Saturday 13th June at 7pm for more beautiful music in the spectacular surroundings of our medieval church, with concerts perfectly timed for visitors to the city and hotel guests before dining at one of the glorious bars restaurants nearby.

Ticket sales will help in part to support the work of the church and are available at: https://www.ticketsource.com/ben-schoeman/

30/05/2026

Tuesday 14th July 2026 – 5.30pm-6.15pm – Choral Evensong with Samuel Pepys' Prayer Book

Members of The Prayer Book Society are especially welcome to join us for our final Choral Evensong before our summer break. Music will include compositions from the time of one of our most famous parishioners, Samuel Pepys, who is buried here & called this place his ‘own’ church. His Prayer Book, illustrated by the Writing Master Edward Cocker, will be on display.

The service is free to attend and open to all. Please register at this link if you intend to come to help us with catering.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pepys-choral-evensong-in-his-own-church-tickets-1988132925098

29/05/2026

Friday 10th July 2026 – 6pm–8pm – Sea Shantying around the Parish of St Olave Hart Street
Join us as we roam the inns of our parish spreading good cheer, celebrate our maritime connections past and present & look forward to ‘Sea Sunday’ by singing shanties, led by the London Sea Shanty Collective. Meet at The Ship Inn at 6pm for the first of what we hope will be an annual tradition! Register to attend so you can catch up with us en-route: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-shantying-around-the-parish-of-st-olave-hart-street-city-of-london-tickets-1990631786259