WWII
On the night of the 16th April 1941 the church was bombed and gutted. All that remained of the original building was the exterior walls and tower.
After much delay, it was decided that it would be restored “stone for stone and brick for brick” to the original Wren designs.
The present building was opened in 1961 with its new status as a Guild Church, a church without a parish designed to serve the local working community.
