John Stow, in his Survey of London 1598, revised during 1603, refers to it also as St Edmund Grass Church.

[10] The present church was constructed to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren in 1670–1679,[11] with a tower ornamented at the angles by flaming urns in allusion to the Great Fire.

[17] On 7 July 1917, during the second daylight air raid by Gotha bombers of the England Squadron, a high explosive bomb landed on St Edmund's, destroying the main beam of the roof; extensive repair and restoration was required and it did not reopen until 1 October 1919.

[19] Rectors of the church have included Thomas Lyndford, chaplain in ordinary to George I, and Jeremiah Milles, president of the Society of Antiquaries.

He died in Liverpool in 1929, exhausted at the age of 45, and poor people flocked to his funeral in Worcester, for the Dean of Westminster refused burial at the Abbey because, he said, Studdert Kennedy was a "socialist".