Father Charles Gutch, who was previously curate at St Matthias', Stoke Newington, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, and All Saints, Margaret Street, was anxious to acquire a church of his own in London, so that he could manage it in his own style.
Over the next thirty years, St Cyprian Mission Church flourished, but the church building could only hold one hundred and eighty and became overcrowded.