The parish was founded in the precinct of Fulham Manor, currently adjacent to it, which was in the possession of the Bishops of London, since the 8th century.

It is now an Anglican church in Fulham, London, sited close to the River Thames, beside the northern approach to Putney Bridge.

Barbara Denny, a historian of London, writes that the first record of a church here dates from 1154 in the rolls of a tithe dispute.

[2] Apart from the tower, construction of which began in 1440, the present church building dates from the late Victorian period, having been rebuilt in 1880–1881 by Sir Arthur Blomfield using squared rubblestone, ashlar dressings and windows in the Perpendicular style.

The church has a long association with the bishops of London as lords of the manor of Fulham, and is the burial place for many of them.