In the grounds, which hold the Green Flag Award, are some fine tombs including many early 19th century sarcophagi and a community garden, Eden.

[2][6] The church was built from stock brick, with a fairly low pitched slate roof and is in the classical style.

In 1875, the church was extended at the east end by Sir Arthur Blomfield[2] with a transept, a chancel and lower half octagonal apse.

A complete, historically congruent rebuild of the organ was finished in 2019 by Andrew Cooper & Co. Ltd.[9] The East End extension designed by Blomfield was converted into a community centre in 1970, reducing the church to its original size.

The centre is home to a Montessori nursery school and a number of user groups including a community choir.

The church is used as a performance space by an opera company,[10] a chamber music ensemble[11] and for theatrical productions by Paul's Players.

[15] A review commissioned by Lambeth Council, following the Black Lives Matter protests during 2020, to identify locations in Lambeth with historic direct and indirect links to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, included both the memorial plaque to William Hewer and the Hibbert family tomb as having proven associations.