The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War[1] and the ruins are now a public garden maintained by the City of London Corporation.

It was built in a gothic style sympathetic to the main body of the church, though with heavy string courses of a kind not used in the Middle Ages.

[5] The restored church had wooden carvings by Grinling Gibbons and an organ by Father Smith, which was transferred to the abbey at St Albans in 1818.

It was decided to rebuild the church from the level of the arches, but the state of the structure proved so bad that the whole building was taken down.

It was rebuilt to a design in the perpendicular style by David Laing (then architect to the Board of Customs) with assistance from William Tite.