You can find our regular service times on our home page. Please join us over the next few months for our special services and events:
Tuesday 28th April 2026 – 6.30pm-7.15pm – St Olave Lecture – First Kings: Forged by Vikings in England and Norway. Tickets £5 includes a glass of wine.
Adrian Waddingham CBE joins us to talk about his latest book exploring the turbulent years of 850 to 954, when amidst shifting allegiances and warfare the first kings of England and Norway emerged. Tickets £5 available at this link.
Saturday 9th May 2026 – 7pm-8.20pm – Beethoven by Twilight (Ben Schoeman, Piano)
Steinway Artist and award-winning pianist, Ben Schoeman, embarks on a concert series at St Olave’s Church (near Tower of London). Unreserved Seating. Tickets £18 available at this link.
Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata no. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2
Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/2 (Moonlight)
Franz Liszt:
Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este) – from S. 163
Liebestraum no. 3, S. 541
Après une lecture du Dante : Fantasia quasi sonata – from S. 161
Sunday 10th May 2026 – 11am – 1pm – Sung Holy Communion for Rogation Sunday followed by The Beating of the Parish Bounds
Join us this Rogation Sunday for Sung Holy Communion from 11am-12pm, followed by the Beating of the Parish Bounds – an ancient tradition involving walking the boundaries of the parish, praying and giving thanks to God for the glorious part of the City of London which we serve.
Tuesday 12th May 2026 – 5.30pm-6.15pm – Choral Evensong as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Please join us for glorious music from our choir in our beautiful medieval church and the sublime liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer. Today the choir will sing new liturgical music from living composers including David Bednall, Colin Spinks and Philip Moore, as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Sunday 17th May 2026 – 11am – 1pm – Sung Holy Communion followed by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Please join us after Holy Communion for our Annual Meeting when we review the year past and look forward to the year ahead. All are welcome.
Sunday 24th May 2026 – 11am-1pm – Sung Holy Communion with Baptism on Whit Sunday & Quarter Peal to commemorate Princess Elizabeth’s release from the Tower of London and visit to All Hallows Staining
Whit Sunday (also known as Whitsun or Pentecost) celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples after Jesus’ resurrection. Join us for Sung Holy Communion and Baptism. After the service, the University of London Society of Change Ringers will ring a special Quarter Peal in commemoration of Princess Elizabeth’s visit to give thanks to the bellringers at All Hallows Staining (now part of our parish) following her release from the Tower of London in May 1554.
Tuesday 26th May 2026 – 6.30pm-7.15pm – St Olave Lecture – William Turner: The Father of English Botany. Tickets £5 includes a glass of wine.
Professor Brycchan Carey joins us to talk about the life of William Turner – known as ‘the Father of English Botany’, who is buried here at St Olave Hart Street. Tickets £5 available at this link.
Thursday 28th May 2026 – 12pm-1pm – The Annual Pepys Commemoration Service. Special Guest Speaker: Guy De la Bédoyère – The Confessions of Samuel Pepys
All are welcome to attend this service at which we will be joined by members of The Samuel Pepys Club. Following the service, this year’s address will be given by Guy De la Bédoyère, who will talk about his book ‘The Confessions of Samuel Pepys’ which focuses on Pepys’s controversial private life for a contemporary readership, by charting his varied and complex relationships with women. The service is free to attend but please register at this link.
Friday 29th May 2026 – 7pm-8.20pm – Candlelight Concert by David Pinoit (cello) and Ben Schoeman (piano) performing Bach, Saint-Saens and Rachmaninoff
Steinway Artist and award-winning pianist, Ben Schoeman, embarks on a concert series at St Olave’s Church (near Tower of London). Unreserved Seating. Tickets £20 available at this link.
Programme:
Two Bach Chorales (arr. Kodály)
Sonata no. 1 in C minor, Op. 32 by Saint-Saëns
Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 by Rachmaninoff
Saturday 30th May 2026 – 7.00pm – “Incendiary” – Samuel Pepys in Words and Music by Hambletts Productions (World Premiere)
This unique and very special performance takes place under Samuel Pepys’ and his wife, Elizabeth’s, gaze, in the church where they both worshipped and lie buried. Pepys’ inimitable words are brought to life by Edward Bennett, woven with Grace Davidson’s sublime soprano. Music flows through Pepys’ writing, from the earthy Broadside Ballads of London’s streets to the Baroque. In this production, music and words combine to illuminate Pepys’ story with an emotional impact that has to be experienced.
Samuel Pepys: Edward Bennett
Elizabeth Pepys/Voice: Grace Davidson
Lute: Daniel Murphy
Adapted by: Deirdre Shields
Director: Judy Reaves
Presented by Hambletts in association with Harmonic Artists & MW Music and Artists. Tickets £32.52-43.36 including booking fee available at this link.
Tuesday 2nd June 2026 – 6.00pm-7.00pm – St Olave Lecture – The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary. Tickets £5 includes a glass of wine.
Professor Kate Loveman joins us to talk about her award-winning book exploring how Samuel Pepys’s Diary has been received through the ages, since its first publication 200 years ago. Tickets £5 available at this link.
