Friday 10th July 2026 – 6pm – Sea Shantying
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…
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…
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…
Tuesday 2 June – 6pm – St Olave Lecture – The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
Click here for Eventbrite URL. Professor Kate Loveman explores how Samuel Pepys’s Diary has been received through the ages, since its first publication 200 years ago. Compline by Candlelight at St Olave…
Tuesday 9th June 2026 – 5.30pm-6.15pm – Choral Evensong
Please join us for glorious music from our choir in our beautiful medieval church and the sublime liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer. Choral Evensong takes place on the…
Tuesday 16th June 2026 – 7pm-8pm – Choral Concert by Blackheath Centre for Singing Chamber Choir
Blackheath Centre for Singing Chamber Choir explores a programme of atmospheric choral music written by American composers. Inspired by landscape and nature, poetry, and spirituals, the works by Lauridsen, Z.…
Sunday 14th June 2026 – 12.30pm-5.30pm-London Festival of Architecture Guided Tours. St Olave Hart Street – Ruins to Restoration
We welcome visitors for guided tours during the London Festival of Architecture in the month which marks 75 years since the post-war restoration of the church began. The Festival Theme…
Sunday 21st June 2026 – 11.00am-12.15pm – Sung Holy Communion to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Laying of the Restoration Stone
We welcome representatives from the Norwegian Embassy, the Diocese of London, the Norwegian Church in Rotherhithe Nidarosdomens Guttekor – the boys choir of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway, for this…
Tuesday 14th July 2026 – 5.30pm-6.15pm – Choral Evensong with reception for members of The Prayer Book Society
We welcome members of the Prayer Book Society to our last Choral Evensong of the term. Samuel Pepys Prayer Book will be on display.
Sunday 19th July 2026 – 11.00am-12.15pm – Patronal Festival and Parish Party with Jazz Band
We celebrate our patronal festival giving thanks for St Olaf with a special service with eight part professional choir followed by a parish party in the churchyard with jazz music.
