In 1880, Hassan I of Morocco donated land to the British community in order to build a small Anglican church in Tangier.

[3] Henri Matisse's painting of 1913, Landscape Viewed from a Window, depicts the church.

[4] The church has a number of memorial plaques, including one to commemorate Emily Keene, (1849–1944), Sherifa of Wazzan, who introduced the cholera vaccine to Morocco.

She was a British humanitarian who married the Shareef of Ouazzane, a local religious leader.

Another memorial commemorates Thomas Kirby-Green, one of the members of the Great Escape who was executed on recapture.