St Olave, Hart Street


8 Hart Street
London
EC3R 7NB

The church dates from about 1450. The churchyard was made famous by Dickens in his Uncommercial Traveller, where he described it as "best loved churchyard, the Churchyard of St Ghastly Grim". The Gateway with its skull and crossbones is not a reference to the plague as elsewhere in the City but is a standard motif from a Dutch pattern book of 1633.

Nearest Transport Links: Tower Hill



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