Recorded since the 12th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren.

[1] The patronage of the church belonged to the abbess and convent of Barking, Essex until the Dissolution, when it passed to the Crown.

[2] It was rebuilt in 1440,[3] mostly at the expense of Robert Large,[4] who was Lord Mayor that year and is remembered as the Master of whom William Caxton served his apprenticeship.

[6] Among the best are the reredos, communion rails and baptismal font, which are thought to be by Grinling Gibbons[7] from St Olave, Old Jewry, the pulpit sounding board and the rood screen from All-Hallows-the-Great.

[8] Two paintings of Moses and Aaron flank the high altar, and came from St Christopher le Stocks when it was demolished in 1781.