
In 1870, the parishes of All Hallows Staining and St Olave Hart Street were combined in and the main church was demolished, leaving the tower we see today. Whilst it did experience a brief renaissance after St Olave Hart Street was bombed out in the Second World War, with a prefabricated church standing on the site until the rebuilt St Olave's reopened in 1954, it was not to be permanent.
The remaining tower, however, was recognised with Grade I listed status in 1950, and it is very pretty. For more information on the history of the church, click here.
And St. Olave Hart Street (a.k.a. Dickens' Saint Ghastly Grim) is itself worth a visit, not only for the skulls over the gate: it's Pepys' burial place and has an amazing Grinling Gibbons (maybe) pulpit.
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