A concert in Pepys's Church

To St Olave's, Hart Street, for a concert of music by Victoria, Guerrero, Esquivel and Morales, excellently sung by the Giltspur Chamber Choir.

St Olave's was Samuel Pepys's church. Three ominous skulls guard the entrance in Seething Lane to what Dickens described as the churchyard of St. Ghastly Grim. Inside the church is the bust of his wife Elizabeth, commissioned after her death by Pepys: she looks over his burial-place. There's also a memorial to Samuel (who had his own covered staircase to his pew from his workplace at the Admiralty, opposite).