Join us for beautiful liturgy, sublime choral music, thoughtful preaching, inspiring talks and events in the surroundings of our ancient medieval church, where all are always welcome.

Founded in 1050 and dedicated to a Viking warrior who became King and then Patron Saint of Norway, the first healing miracle here associated with Olaf is recorded in the twelfth century.

A Great Fire survivor & miraculously restored after the blitz, the story of this church is entwined with London’s mercantile and maritime past. Some jest that the whole world has passed through this tiny parish. Samuel Pepys, buried here, called it his “own church”; the poet John Betjeman described it as, “a country church in the world of Seething Lane.”

City and countryside. Warrior and healer. Like our own lives, the story of this place is layered rather than clear cut. A place where apparent opposites are held in holy tension. Where people meet and meaning quietly emerges.

Our unusual east window shows both Christ in his passion – suffering on the cross – and an image of Christ in glory, the cross shining brightly behind. An artistic representation of the seemingly polar opposite at the heart of our faith. That the death of Christ on the cross has, through his resurrection, brought the promise of new life for us and for the whole world.

That is the Good News we proclaim here each day. Not easy answers, but a living hope — which is offered freely by Christ to all who turn to Him.

The Reverend Phillip Dawson
Rector