[3] The church stood on the north side of Poultry at its junction with Mansion House Street.

The first church can be traced back to 1175, in the reign of Henry II;[4] by 1456 it had fallen into disrepair, and had to be taken down and rebuilt.

A new church was completed in 1676 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, after which the parish was united with that of St Mary Colechurch, which was not rebuilt.

George Godwin described the interior of the new church as "a simple room with a flat ceiling coved at the sides … remarkable for nothing but a strange want of symmetry apparent at the west end".

[5] The most ornamented part of the exterior was the south side, towards Poultry, with a central pediment and Ionic pilasters.