St Olav'S Kirke

St Olav's Kirke is a Norwegian Seamen's Church built in 1927 by John L Seaton Dahl. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a pantiled roof. It is designed in an 18th-century domestic style, highlighted by a Scandinavian spire on the tower above the entrance.

The layout includes a porch, an office, and a large reception hall with accommodation above. The church is located in a narrower three-bay extension to the east, with one-storey extensions to the north and south, and an apse at the gabled east end.

The exterior features a west half that is two storeys tall and five bays wide, with a swept hipped roof, overhanging eaves, and ridge stacks. The west front displays an elaborate stone doorpiece at the slightly projecting central bay, supported by Ionic columns and featuring an entablature with a broken pediment and cartouche above. The round-headed ground-floor windows and flat-headed first-floor windows have stone architraves and leaded lights. Stone quoins and a first-floor sill band add to the detailing, which is mirrored on the five bay returns of the front half of the building. The tower includes a window with a stone surround, a console bracketed cornice, and a balcony on the west face, along with swag-decorated oculi on the other faces. Above, there is a stone cornice and parapet with an urn at each corner, topped by a spire with a lantern.

The south-east extension features an entrance with a stone architrave and entablature, along with a cartouche with a mask above.

Inside, the large panelled reception hall has a fireplace on either side of the entrance and a lantern in the roof. A timber arcade leads to the church, which is a small, plain, aisleless space with a nave of three bays, an arched brace roof, and dado panelling that continues around the sanctuary in the apse extension.