The medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London[6] and rebuilt by Christopher Wren between 1670 and 1687.[7] The parish was united with that of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, which was not rebuilt.[3] The church is entirely faced in stone, with a grand east front, on which four attached Corinthian columns, raised on a basement, support a pediment placed against a high attic.[7] George Godwin, writing in 1839, described the details of this facade as displaying " a purity of feeling almost Grecian", while pointing out that Wren's pediment acts only as a superficial adornment to the wall, rather than, as in Classical architecture, forming an extension of the roof.[5]