The earliest known mention of the church comes in a charter, ostensibly written in the reign of William I, but in fact a mid-12th century forgery.

It records the king's confirmation of a previous grant of St Laurence's to Westminster Abbey.

Part of its endowment consisted of the patronage of the church itself, which Pultneye had obtained from Westminster Abbey.

[3] A programme of improvements was undertaken at the cost of the parish in 1631–2, in the course of which the spire was releaded, a set of five new bells was hung in a new frame, and the floors were raised and levelled.

[1] The old churchyard, which lay to the south side of the church continued to be used for burials; in the 1850s it was converted into the garden of a neighbouring house, then occupied by the architect Edward I'Anson.