A fire destroyed the earlier church in 1512, and it was rebuilt for Henry VIII by Sir Richard Cholmondeley, then Lieutenant of the Tower. The article says William Vertue probably designed it. The rebuilding ran from 1519 to 1520. The design is Tudor, with cusped windows and no tracery, a short west tower with a lantern bell-cote, and a nave with a shorter north aisle. The crypt dates to the mid-13th century. The article gives no materials or dimensions, and the founding date of the first church is uncertain.
A renovation in 1876 uncovered three burials, identified as Anne Boleyn, Margaret Pole and John Dudley.
It is a royal peculiar and the regimental church of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Visitors see it on a Tower of London tour, and it holds a regular Sunday morning service.
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