It was first mentioned in a will of about 960 A.D. In its final medieval form, it was mainly a perpendicular-style structure of the late 14th and early 15th-century. It was gutted by fire in1867 and rebuilt under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church was elevated to the status of Croydon Minster on 29 May 2011.
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