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Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. The new parish was created from part of that of
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121:. In the same year a rebuilding scheme for the church was approved, but never carried out. The last baptism was held in the church in 1960. In 1964 a further amalgamation of parishes saw St Olave and St John's included in the parish of
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