[3] Some argue that it dated back to King Offa of Mercia,[4] who is believed to have had a palace on the site which included a chapel.

[5] In 1633 Inigo Jones and Sir Henry Spiller, among others, were requested to examine the church,[6] which had fallen into disrepair, and report on its condition.

[7] The rebuilt church was divided into nave and aisles by piers shaped as clustered columns, supporting unusually flattened pointed arches.

The parish was united with that of St Vedast Foster Lane in 1954 and the remains of the body of the church demolished in 1965.

[9] Its exterior was used as headquarters of the group AD1 in the 2009 film St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, and as a location in the music video for Adam Rickitt's Everything My Heart Desires.