Wall was born in 1588 'of genteel parents' in the city of London and educated at Westminster School.
[1] In 1617 Wall was appointed vicar of St. Aldate's, Oxford, where he gained reputation as a preacher.
; in 1632 he was made canon of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1637 he was appointed to the living of Chalgrove; and in 1644 to a canonry at Salisbury Cathedral.
[1] Wall was deprived of his canonry at Christ Church by the parliamentary visitors in March 1648, but was restored on his submission in the following September, and retained that and his canonry at Salisbury during the Commonwealth and Protectorate; he was also subdean and moderator of Christ Church.
He subscribed to the rebuilding of Christ Church in 1660, and gave some books to Pembroke College Library.