of the church was built on the site largely at the expense of Octavius Coope MP; it was opened and re-consecrated on 2 February 1877.

In 1797, the body of sailor Richard Parker, hanged for his leading role in the Nore mutiny, was given a Christian burial at Whitechapel after his wife exhumed it from the unconsecrated burial ground to which it was originally consigned.