Camden Town was developed from the 1790s onwards in the then largely rural parish of St Pancras, on the northern fringe of London.

It is a fairly large building of yellow stock brick, with east and west ends faced in Portland stone.

[2] The building has generally been praised, but both contemporary writers and later architectural critics such as Sir John Summerson have argued that the tower is too thin in proportion to the body of the church.

The area acquired a large Greek speaking community in the decades after World War II, mostly from Cyprus, and the church is still well used, though many of the worshippers now come from the outer suburbs of London.

Most recently since January 2009 under the supervision of English Heritage and co-sponsored by the National Lottery and donations from the Greek Orthodox Community of the parish.