[3][4] There is a tower, to the centre of the west end, rising above a pedimented, slightly advanced central section.

Dance's design was not the first: Nicholas Hawksmoor had produced a plan for the 1711 Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, but, like most of the ambitious target, it failed to come to fruition.

[9] That post-war interior includes works by a roll-call of eminent 20th-century ecclesiastical artists: an upper-level Lady Chapel at the east end with panelling carrying the apostles by Peter Snow; a bas-relief depicting the war between Heaven and Hell and St Michael and the angels doing battle with the devil by Kim James; wall paintings by Barry Robinson; sand-blasted glass doors by Heather Child; sculptured panels on the altar by Robert Dawson; a vesica-shaped marble font by Anthony Lewis; and fired ceramic Stations of the Cross by Donald Potter.

[21] The railings, wall and gate piers to the churchyard are separately listed Grade II,[22] as is the parish watch house, which dates from 1826.

It was King who sought, initially with some success but ultimately unsuccessfully, to counter the corrupt regime of the churchwarden Joseph Merceron.

[25] Septimus Hansard (rector, 1864–95) was a Christian Socialist and a friend of F. D. Maurice; he and Edward Pusey were active in assisting cholera victims in 1866.

Headlam's socialist views were so extreme that he was never offered an incumbency, and, for 14 years, was even refused a licence to officiate.

[29] Those who remained worked with three priests-in-charge to stabilise the church before appointing Kevin Scully as the new, long-term, rector in 2002.