Following the 1646 union of the parish with that of St. Thomas's and though the church was rebuilt in 1724 it was as a
chapel of ease to St. Thomas's and it did not become the centre of a separate parish again until 1844. The interior of the church was altered in 1864, although the church still retains its early pews, pulpit and panelled gallery. A school for children aged 5–11 years was built near to the church on Birmingham Street during the 19th century, but this closed in 1970 when it merged with St John's School on
Kates Hill to form the Church of England Primary School of St Edmund and St John, located at a new site on Hillcrest Road. The school building survives, however, and since 1978 has been the Dudley Central Mosque. ==References==