[1] The main building dates from the 18th century and features Spanish-Tuscan architecture and Baroque artwork.

It is said that the British soldiers went on a spree after they had taken Gibraltar and every local church was desecrated with the exception of this church because the priest stood his ground and his bravery created respect in the drunken sailors.

[1] Work began in 1735 on the construction of a church over the foundations of the 1508 Chapel of Saint Roch.The church was declared a listed building (Spanish: Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1974.

The image of the Most Holy Christ of the Happy Death is the work of San Roque-born sculptor Luis Ortega Bru.

José Cadalso, a local poet, playwright, essayist (author of Cartas marruecas), and soldier who was killed during the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1782 is buried in one of the side chapels.