 The building is Grade II* listed and contains monuments dating from the early sixteenth century, which were transferred from the medieval parish church.It is possible that a chapel stood here serving the small, prosperous manor of Hackney north of the City of London, before the Norman Conquest.No records survive of a conceivable chapel before 1275 for a chapelry within the parish of Stepney which covered the 13km² of Hackney (see St Dunstan's, Stepney).