ST. OLAVE, SILVER STREET
This church was situated on the south side of Silver Street, in Aldersgate Ward. It was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt, its parish being annexed to that of St. Alban’s, Wood Street. The earliest date of an incumbent is 1343.
The patronage of the church was always in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s.
Houseling people in 1548 were 130.
No monuments of any interest are recorded.
The parish received two charitable gifts: a messuage purchased for £58, the gift of Roger James; and £5 : 10s., to be paid every tenth year, the gift of Bernard Hyde.
In Silver Street, No. 24 is the Parish Clerks’ Hall.