Authorised by the Church Building Act 1824 (5 Geo 4 Cap CIII), it was built on the site of the old gallows corner on Kennington Common.

[2] His son, William Bruère Otter, subsequently Archdeacon of Lewes, was another early Stipendiary Curate.

[7] 1897–1947: For 50 years, including WWII, the Vicar was the top-hatted the Rev John Darlington DD, brother-in-law of Bishop Montgomery.

Darlington drove a 1904 James & Browne, which has participated in many London to Brighton Car Runs.

[13] For many years de Berry was a director of the Barnabas Fund, which is a charity that supports persecuted Christians.

[15] Badly bombed during WWII, the church was restored through the efforts of the post-war Vicar, the Rev Wallace Bird, and reopened in 1949.

[19] The organ is a 28 stop Noel Mander, installed in 1949, and originally located in the former St Andrew's, New Kent Road.