St Olave's Church, Hart Street
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane near Fenchurch Street railway station.
St Olave's Church, Hart Street
The famous gateway to Saint Olave's churchyard, described by Dickens as "Saint Ghastly Grim". It is dated 11 April 1658 and the Latin text is from Saint Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, chapter 1 verse 21: "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain".
Interior of St Olave's Church
The memorial effigy of Peter Turner at St Olave Hart Street Church in 2014
Seething Lane is a street in the City of London. It connects All Hallows-by-the-Tower, Byward Street, with St Olave's Church, Hart Street. The street is named after an Old English expression meaning "full of chaff", which was derived from the nearby corn market in Fenchurch Street. Samuel Pepys lived there and is buried in St Olave's Church at the junction with Hart Street. A bust of Pepys, created by Karin Jonzen, sits in the public garden at the south end of the street.
Seething Lane, viewed from Byward Street at its southern end.
Bust of Samuel Pepys in Seething Lane Gardens, by Karin Jonzen, 1983
The Knollys Rose procession enters Seething Lane in June 2019.