It is located on the Finchley Road, on the corner with Hoop Lane, next to Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.

[4] In 1906, plans for nearby Hampstead Garden Suburb were enacted, something that would increase the population of the local area.

The church was opened a month later, on 13 October 1915, the feast day of St Edward the Confessor, in ceremony again presided over by Cardinal Bourne.

Originally, before being reinterred in a grave outside walls of the church, he was buried in East Finchley Cemetery.

In 1940, for the 25th anniversary of the church, statues of English saints and blesseds, made by Philip Lindsey Clark, were installed in the reredos.

[5] In 1909, the Daughters of Wisdom arrived in the parish, after six years teaching in Cricklewood, and started La Sagesse Convent with a school attached to it.