Built in the late Gothic Revival style, it is situated close to the town centre, on Village Way near the junction with the High Street.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England, the church is "worthy of Sir Giles Scott himself".

On 3 July 1937, the foundation stone for the current church was laid by the Archbishop of Southwark Peter Amigo.

[5] He designed the church in a Gothic Revival style reminiscent of Giles Gilbert Scott.

[6] Media related to Church of Saint Edmund, Beckenham at Wikimedia Commons