{{short description|Listed building in Southwark, London}} {{Use British English| date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox building | name = St Olaf House | image = File:St Olaf House, Tooley Street (02).jpg | image_caption = The south face of St Olaf House in 2021 | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_label = | pushpin_mark = | alternate_names = | building_type = House | architectural_style = Art deco | classification = | location = Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark | address = 27 Tooley Street | location_city = London | location_country = United Kingdom | coordinates = {{coord|51.5064|-0.0864|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | construction_start_date = 1928 | material = Portland stone | status = Complete {{Designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Grade II* Listed Building | designation1_offname = St Olaf House | designation1_type = | designation1_criteria = | designation1_date = 13 May 1971 | delisted1_date = | designation1_partof = | designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1385977|short=yes}} }} }}
'''St Olaf House''' is a Grade II* listed building on Tooley Street in the London Borough of Southwark. The house was built on the site of St Olave's Church between 1928 and 1932, and is now part of London Bridge Hospital.
==History== St Olaf House was built between 1928 and 1932 by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel as a headquarters for the Hay's Wharf Company.<ref name=AL>{{cite web| url= http://architecturally.london/buildings/hays-wharf-and-st-olaf-house| title= Hay's Wharf and St Olaf House| publisher=Architecturally| accessdate=17 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=MB>{{cite web| url= http://www.modernistbritain.co.uk/post/building/St+Olaf+House/| title= St Olaf House, London| publisher=Modernist Britain| accessdate=17 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=LR>{{cite web| url= https://www.londonremembers.com/sites/st-olaf-house| title=St Olaf House| publisher=London Remembers| accessdate=17 March 2020}}</ref> The house was built on the site of the demolished St Olave's Church, Southwark,<ref name=MB/><ref name=LR/> in the art deco style.<ref>{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZymgAAAAMAAJ| title=Old London Bridge: lost and found| last=Watson| first=Bruce| publisher=Museum of London Archaeology| date=2004| page=24| isbn=9781901992489}}</ref> The building is made out of Portland stone.<ref name=MB/><ref name=HE>{{cite web| url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1385977| title= St Olaf House| publisher=Historic England| accessdate=17 March 2020}}</ref> It is six storeys high, T-shaped, and faces the River Thames.<ref name=MB/><ref name=HE/> The entrance hall has a terrazzo floor.<ref name=AL/> The exterior has 39 terracotta panels designed by Frank Dobson.<ref name=MB/> Outside the building, there is also a black and gold mosaic by Dobson depicting Saint Olaf, the Norwegian king who helped protect London from the Danes in 1014.<ref name=AL/><ref name=SW>{{cite web| url=http://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/Tooley_Street.pdf| type=pdf| title= Tooley Street: Conservation area appraisal| publisher=Southwark Council| date=July 2003| accessdate=17 March 2020}}</ref> The engraver commissioned was Robert Lambert Gapper, then a post-army student under Henry Moore. There is also an inscription about the former St Olave's Church.<ref name=MB/><ref name=HE/>
Hay's Wharf became disused in 1969.<ref name=AL/> In the 1980s, St Olaf House was purchased by London Bridge Hospital; it is used for consultation rooms and the hospital's cardiology department.<ref name=AL/> It became a Grade II* listed building in 1971,<ref name=HE/> and is part of the Tooley Street conservation area.<ref name=SW/>
{{gallery |Hay's Wharf - St Olaf House from the Thames.jpg|North face of St Olaf House |St Olave on the exterior of St Olaf's House.jpg|Depiction of Saint Olave on the southwest corner of St Olaf House |St Olaf House - 5.jpg|Inscription }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *{{National Heritage List for England|num=1385977}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Olaf House}} Category:Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Grade II* listed houses in London Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1932 Category:Art Deco architecture in London Category:Grade II* listed hospital buildings