It was built in 1638–1642 as a chapel of ease on part of what since 1625 had been a burial ground for St Margaret, Westminster, whose burials including Thomas Blood and Wenceslaus Hollar.
[1][2] It was renamed Christ Church and replaced with a building designed by Ambrose Poynter between 1841 and 1844.
[3] It was almost entirely destroyed on 17 April 1941 during the London Blitz - the ruins were demolished post-war, followed by the tower in 1954.
The site was sold off in 1946[4] and the parish merged with that of St Peter, Eaton Square.
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