St. Olave Silver Street
Names
- St. Olave Silver Street
- St. Olave de Mukewellestrate
- St. Olave in Syrnerstrete
- Sancti Olavi de Cripelesgate
- St. Olave, near London Wall
- Sancti Olani de Mocwelle
- Sancti Olani de Mokwelle
- St. Olave de Mugwellestrate
- St. Olave in Moggewellestrete
- St. Olave apud Crepulgate
- St. Olave in Silvernestret
- St. Olave Selverstrete
- St. Olave the King in Silverstrete
- St Olave de Sylverstrete
- Mary Olaf in Silverstrete
- St. Mary Olaf
- St. Olave de Cripelesgate
- St. Olave Mogwell Street
- St. Towles parish in Silverstrete
Street/Area/District
- Silver Street
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): St. Olave Silver Street
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): St. Olave Silver Street
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): St. Olaves
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
St. Olave Silver Street
On the south side of Silver Street at its junction with Noble Street and Falcon Square. In Cripplegate Ward Within (Leake, 1666).
The parish extends into Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (detached).
First mention: "St. Olave de Mukewellestrate," 12th century (H. MSS. Corn. 9th Rep. 23).
Other forms: "St. Olave in Syrnerstrete" (ib. 48). "Sancti Olavi de Cripelesgate," 13 cent. (Anc. Deeds, A. 7933). "St. Olave near London Wall," 1294 (Ct. H.W. I. 114). "Sancti Olani de Mocwelle" or "Mokwelle," 31 Ed. I. (Lib. Cust. 230, 233). "St. Olave de Mugwellestrate," 1306–7 (Ct. H.W. I. 183). "St. Olave in Moggewellestrete," 1310 (ib. 216). "St. Olave apud Crepulgate," 9 Ed. II. (West. Abbey MS. 44, 12). "St. Olave in Silvernestret," 12 Ed. II. (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 101). "St. Olave Selverstrete," 17 Ed. III. (Anc. Deeds, B. 2103). "St. Olave the King in Silverstrete," 1341 (Ct. H.W. I. 449). "St Olave de Sylverstrete," 1368 (ib. II. 109). "Mary Olaf in Silverstrete," 37 Ed. III. (Cal. P.R. Ed. III. 1361–4, p. 412). "St. Olave commonly called St. Towles parish in Silverstrete," 37 H. VIII. (Lond. I. p.m. I. 162).
New built and enlarged 1609 and again 1619. Gallery erected 1632.
Burnt in the Fire 1666. Not rebuilt.
Parish united to St. Alban Wood Street (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 92, 99, 121).
A Rectory. Patrons: Canons of St. Paul's, afterwards the Dean and Chapter.
Dedication to the Norwegian king Olaf, d. 1030. The various distinctive appellations denote locality.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Olave's (St.), Silver Street, a church in Aldersgate Ward, destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt. The living was united to that of St. Alban's, Wood Street. Stow calls it "a small thing, and without any noteworthy monuments." The burial-ground remains unbuilt on.
On St. 01ave's day [1557], the holiday of the church in Silver Street, which is dedicated to that saint, was kept with much solemnity. At eight of the clock at night, began a stage-play, of goodly matter, being the miraculous history of the life of that saint, which continued four hours, and was concluded with many religious songs.—Warton's Hist. of Poetry, ed. 1840, vol. iii. p. 268.