St Olave's, Silver Street
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St Olave, Silver Street was a church dedicated to St Olaf (Norwegian Christian ally of the English king Ethelred II) on Silver Street the City of London
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The first reference to it, in the 12th century, refers to a "St Olave de Mukewellestrate". 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".
The church was destroyed in the Great Fire
and not rebuilt. It is now a garden, at the end of Noble Street. A late 17th Century tablet marks the spot where it once stood, off London Wall
, near the Museum of London
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City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
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The first reference to it, in the 12th century, refers to a "St Olave de Mukewellestrate". 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".
The church was destroyed in the Great Fire
Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall...
and not rebuilt. It is now a garden, at the end of Noble Street. A late 17th Century tablet marks the spot where it once stood, off London Wall
London Wall
London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now the United Kingdom, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century. It is now the name of a road in the City of London running along part of...
, near the Museum of London
Museum of London
The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 70s as an innovative approach to re-development within a bomb damaged...
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