St Olave Silver Street

St. Olave Silver Street

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Denomination Roman Catholic, Anglican

St Olave, Silver Street was a church dedicated to St Olaf (Norwegian Christian ally of the English king Ethelred II) on Silver Street[1] the City of London.

The first reference to it, in the 12th century, refers to a "St Olave de Mukewellestrate"[2]. It was rebuilt in 1609 and repaired 1662, at a cost of £50 7s 6d. It had a small churchyard, and owned another piece of land in Noble Street, which was called the "anatomizer's ground".[3]

The church was destroyed in the Great Fire[4] and not rebuilt[5]. It is now a garden[6], at the end of Noble Street. A late 17th Century tablet marks the spot where it once stood[7], off London Wall, near the Museum of London.

Notes

  1. ^ South side of Silver Street, Wood Street,Cheapside;north end of Noble Street p229 "Notes on Old London Churches" Pearce,C.W: London, C. Winthrop & Co, 1909
  2. ^ From its proximity to Monkwell Street p22 "Vanished churches of the City of London", Huelin,G: London, Guildhall Library Publications, 1996 ISBN 0900422424
  3. ^ White, J.G. (1901). The Churches and Chapels of Old London. London. pp. 148–9. http://www.archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft. 
  4. ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  5. ^ "A Dictionary of London" Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
  6. ^ "The Old Churches of London" Cobb,G: London, Batsford, 1942
  7. ^ "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550

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