The current building with its conical copper spire dates from 1775 and its portico from 1823. The windows in the side aisles recall famous people linked in some way to the area, such as William Blake who was married here and Turner who painted the river from the vestry... There are amusing epitaphs to see, as well as funerary monuments of the Saint John Bolingbrook family.

A property on this site was rented by future French king Louis-Philippe from 1815 to 1817, and from 1848 to 1871 by his son the Duke of Aumale. The main house was built in 1710, and an octagonal pavilion, the Octagon, was added in 1720. They were linked by a gallery. Today all that remains is a brick pavilion to which an art gallery has been added.

Built for temporary exhibitions, the Hayward Gallery was built in 1968. It was designed so as to offer five big exhibition areas on two levels with three areas dedicated to sculpture.

The theologian John Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism (a branch of Protestantism) who ended his days in the United States, laid the foundation stone of this chapel in 1777. The interior boasts a white and gold ceiling and a tribune supported on seven jasper columns. A Museum of Methodism is housed in the crypt. The preacher's house is rich in mementoes, which include his desk, furniture, clothes, library and kneeler.