The church has a tower with a spire and a ring of thirteen bells, twelve of which were cast by John Warner & Sons at Cripplegate[citation needed] and were dedicated in 1913.

[2] The nave partially collapsed in 1800, and was rebuilt by the County architect John Johnson, retaining the Perpendicular design, but using Coade stone piers and tracery,[3] and a plaster ceiling.

[4] The south porch was extended in 1953 to mark Anglo-American friendship after World War II and the many US airmen stationed in Essex.

In 2004 two further major works of art were commissioned, and are now in place: Mark Cazelet's Tree of Life painting in the North Transept, and Philip Sanderson's altar frontal in the Mildmay Chapel.

He fled to the New World because of his Puritan views and founded the town of Hartford, Connecticut and was one of the founders of American democracy.