The land for the building was donated by Mrs Clement Ingleby of Valentines and the building designed by Cutts Brothers.
Initially a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Ilford, it replaced it as the parish's main church in 1902.
Its vicar was appointed by All Souls College, Oxford.
[2] For four and a half years from 1912, the church's curate was William Henry Jackson, who went on to be a missionary in Burma (now Myanmar) and invented Burmese Braille.
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