It is also linked to Summer's Hithe, a small haven on the Thames, the banks of which would in medieval times have been closer to the church's site.

The parish was very poor, and it was one of only two churches (the other being St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe) for which Wren provided funds for the furnishings from the Coal Tax.

The rebuilt church was smaller than its predecessor, for a strip of land was taken by the city to widen what was then Thames Street.

Bishop Gilbert Ironside, Chancellor of Oxford University, who defied James II in upholding the rights of Fellows, was buried here in 1701.

[2] The second half of the 19th century saw a movement of population from the City of London to suburbs in Middlesex, Kent, Essex and Surrey.

[4] The proceeds of the sale were used to build St Mary Hoxton, which also received the church furnishings and the bell.

Lines of windows, alternately circular and round-headed, run up each side, with grotesque masks and cherubs serving as keystones.

The pinnacles were taken down after the Second World War, due to bomb damage in the London Blitz, but restored by the City Corporation in 1956.