It was opened in 1882 on Eastwood Road as a mission church of St Mark's Church, Silvertown.
In the 1917 Silvertown explosion its chancel and iron hall were destroyed, leaving the church to use temporary buildings until the completion of a new church and the formation of a separate parish for it, both in 1926.
The new parish was mainly drawn from St Mark's, though it also took a small part of the parish of St Luke's Church, Canning Town.
The vicar of St John's Church, North Woolwich administered it after 1945.
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