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391: 205:, a tiny church that already shared the small churchyard of St Olave Old Jewry. The two pre-Fire churches were nearly adjacent. Rebuilding began in 1671, incorporating much of the medieval walls and foundations. The tower was built separately, projecting from the west of the church, and required the carpenter to build a timber platform 16 feet (4.9 m) below ground to support the rubble foundation. The church was completed in 1679 at a cost of £5,580, including £10 paid to the then still ruined 45: 377: 295:. The tower, west wall and part of the north wall were kept and incorporated into a new building which included a rectory for St Margaret Lothbury. This was replaced in 1986 by an office building, in a sympathetic style, designed by the firm of architects Swanke, Hayden, Connell. The churchyard survives as the courtyard to the office building. 315:
The 88-foot (27 m) tower is the only one built by Wren's office that is battered, i.e., is slightly wider at the bottom than the top. The door to the tower has a segmental pediment and is flanked by Doric columns. On top of the tower is a simple parapet with tall obelisks on each corner with
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of Clerkenwell) was removed with the rest of the church furnishings at the time of the demolition; in 1891 it was installed in the tower of St Olave's Hart Street. The current clock was installed after 1972. The pediment which surrounds it is original and previously framed a window.
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In outline, the church was shaped like a wine bottle on its side, with the projecting west tower a truncated neck, the angular west front its shoulders, tapering towards a narrow base to the east. The main façade was on Old Jewry and featured a large
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was buried in the church in 1804. Boydell would visit the church pump (built atop the medieval well) at 5 am each morning, place his periwig on top and douse his head from the spout. His monument survives, transplanted to
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A description from the early 18th century describes the interior as extensively decorated with paintings to an extent unparalleled in other Wren churches, viz.,
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The annals of the parishes of St. Olave Hart Street and Allhallows Staining, in the city of London
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balls on top. In the centre of the tower is a vane in the shape of a sailing ship, taken from
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lying on a fine couch with her regalia, under an arched canopy, on which are placed her arms.
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Despite being restored in 1879, the body of the church was demolished in 1887 under the
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After the church's destruction in the Great Fire, the parish was united with that of
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St Olave, Old Jewry is dedicated to the 11th-century patron saint of Norway,
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went to St Olave's Manor House; and the organ went to Christchurch in
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was the precinct of medieval London largely occupied and populated by
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Churches rebuilt after the Great Fire of London but since demolished
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Monumental Inscriptions in the Church of St. Olave's, Jewry, London
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List of churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished
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Churches in the City of London, of which only the tower remains
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predecessor, built between the 9th and 11th centuries, from
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The earliest surviving reference is in a manuscript of
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The remains of the church were designated a Grade I
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Some Considerations on the subject of Public Clocks
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Index

St Olave Old Jewry

United Kingdom
Denomination
Anglican
Architect(s)
Christopher Wren
Style
Baroque
City of London
Old Jewry
Ironmonger Lane
Great Fire of London
Sir Christopher Wren
St Olaf
Old Jewry
Jews
expulsion from England
Saxon
Kentish
ragstone
Roman bricks
St Martin Pomeroy
St Paul's Cathedral
Robert Large
Lord Mayor
mercer
William Caxton
John Boydell
St Margaret Lothbury

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