The earliest known reference to the existence of the church comes in a document dating to some time between 1136 and 1142, which records it being given to Walden Abbey by Geoffrey de Mandeville.

William Robinson, an early 19th-century historian of Edmonton, attributed the nature of the work to the fact that one of the churchwardens was a bricklayer, and the other a carpenter.

[2] The church's rector in 1772, Dawson Warren, regretted the architectural changes, and described them in verse: The buttresses were chipped away and casedThe ancient battlements built up and copedWith square-cut stones, the Gothic window framesThe costly work of our forefathers' zealWith sacrilegious hands were torn awayAnd changed for timber…[3] The chancel was restored by Ewan Christian in 1855 and the 18th-century wooden tracery was replaced in stone in 1868.

In an extensive refurnishing of 1871 the galleries, added in the late 18th century were removed, and the box pews replaced.

In 1889 a south aisle and an organ chamber were added to designs by Ewan Christian's former assistant WG Scott.