A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Tuesday 9th December 2025, the first such service to take place here in many years. Special thanks to our choir, The St Olave Scholars and to Colin Spinks, Organist and Director of Music and to all our readers, representing some of the many important organisations who call St Olave Hart Street their ‘own’ church:
- Graham Mundy, Churchwarden, St Olave Hart Street
- Iain MacDonald Group Legal Head of Compliance, Lloyds Register
- Joyce Tai, Director of Corporate Affairs, Reignwood Investment UK, owners of The Four Seasons Hotel, Tower Bridge
- Lucie Skeaping, Secretary to the Samuel Pepys Club
- Samuel Rogers, Clerk to The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners
- Jocelyn Stuart-Grumbar, Clerk to The Clothworkers’ Company/CEO
- Marianne Fredericks, Deputy of Tower Ward, City of London
- Commodore Martin Atherton OBE RN, Secretary to the Corporation of Trinity House and Chief Executive of its Charities
The homily given by Reverend Phillip Dawson at the end of the service drew on the writing of Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek to shine a light on the challenge of Living the Word. The text can be read at this link.
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