[2] The mound on which the church stands commands views over its wide spur of land between the discharge of the Colne and the Thames.

[3] The oldest surviving part of the church is the tower, on which a plaque says it was designed by Inigo Jones and built in 1631.

The present battlemented nave was designed by John Burges Watson and building began the following year.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century the rectory passed into lay hands, and from 1725 to 1844 belonged to the Coussmaker family of Westwood, Surrey.

They gave it in memory of the governess to the Prussian royal children, Augusta Maria Byng, who once lived in Binbury Row.

The organ was removed in 1885 from its original location in the gallery at the back of the nave and re-installed on the ground behind the choir stalls.

Thereafter the bells were rehung with new wheels, headstocks and other fittings, and reconsecrated by Bishop Edward Holland at a service that same year.