It is a Grade II listed building and according to Historic England its design and architecture is reminiscent of Augustus Pugin.

That year, Mass was celebrated in a house in Romford, in a cottage on Church Lane.

Baron Petre also paid for the building's construction, coming to £1,800, which, with the cost of the land, came to a total of £2,000.

He also designed Holy Family Church in Witham,[6][7] and the Clock Tower Of Little Ellingham Hall.

The statues were made by Richard Lockwood Boulton, and the stained-glass windows by Hardman & Co.

The church was dedicated to Edward the Confessor, because his summer house was located in nearby Havering-atte-Bower.