The main body of the church was largely destroyed by a German bomb in 1941. It was reconstructed after the war and reconsecrated in 1958. The reconstruction incorporated most of the old memorials. Those memorials, in the church, the chapels and the churchyard, include:
The Brays' monument, which is the oldest in the church, remembers Sir Reginald Bray, who was a supporter of Henry Tudor and benefited from his accession. It once had plates commemorating his brother and his nephew, who inherited the Chelsea estate. Sir Reginald benefited the country in being responsible, as Master of Works to Henry VII, for the two magnificent buildings of St Georges Chapel, Windsor; and Henry VII's chapel, Westminster.
In the Lawrence chapel is the 16th century memorial of the first member of the Lawrence family to live in Chelsea who was a goldsmith. Thomas's memorial shows he had 11 children of whom 2 died in infancy and 4 more before Thomas himself. Thomas had acquired the manor house when Henry VIII acquired the manor but decided he did not want to site his residence/palace there. The family retained this until this estate until 1725 by which time the manor house had been replaced by Monmouth House.
One of Thomas's grandsons, Henry, was in business with Turkey. His epitaph is:

One of Henry's Turkish friends came to Chelsea and, after conversion to Christianity, married one of his daughters.
Dr Baldwin Hamey is remembered with an epitaph including 'a beloved and regretted benefactor of the College of Physicians, being resorted to by the learned as a light to the profession'. He was one of the donors to the rebuilding funds for the 17th century construction and also gave a tenor bell that was hung at that time in the steeple that was added.
A monument occupying the whole eastern end of the Lawrence Chapel is that for Sir Robert Stanley. The epitaph commences:

This construction is believed to have been paid for by Sir Robert's family who were the Stanleys of Derby. The whole certainly presents a fairly convincing picture of some body that considers itself very, very important.
There is a memorial tablet for the American author Henry James (1843-1916), who lived in Carlyle Mansions, including the script 'a resident of this Parish who renounced a cherished citizenship to give his allegiance to England in the first year of the Great War.'
A monument to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) is in the churchyard's south-east corner. The script on it tells that 'in the 92nd year of his age, without the least pain of body, and with conscious serenity of mind, ended a virtuous and beneficial life'. Thea Holme in her book 'Chelsea' suggests that his serenity might have been ruffled if he had been aware that there were many after his time who have been very critical of his demolishing of More's house. However it was a stipulation in his will that should have led to the maintenance of Henry VIII's palace as the British Museum except that the then Prime Minister, Thomas Walpole, took no notice of Sloane's wishes.
In the pavement of the church is a stone commemorating Narcissus Luttrell, who lived in Shaftesbury House from 1710 to his death in 1732, and his wife Sarah who died in 1722 and his son.
A brass in the More Chapel commemorates Sir Arthur Gorges, a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh and involved in the defeat of the Armada, and his second wife Elizabeth who had inherited the More's Great House. As was the custom it also shows their children with six sons behind him and five daughters behind her. Elizabeth leased to her daughter, also Elizabeth, the house that she occupied on her marriage to Sir Robert Stanley.
Another Arthur Gorges, grandson of Raleigh's cousin, also has a memorial in the More Chapel which is inscribed:

On the south wall of the More Chapel is the monument to the widow of Lord John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who was executed following the failure of his attempt to place his daughter-in-law, once Lady Jane Grey, on the throne. The Duchess was reinstated in the palace that had once been Henry VIII's by Mary and died there aged 46. The monument tells that she was '...wyfe to the right high and mighty prince John Dudley, late Duke of Northumberland, by whom she had yssew 13 children, that is to wete 8 sonnes and 5 daughters...' One of those sons was the Earl of Leicester, the favourite for a time of Queen Elizabeth.
The north wall of the church holds the monument to Lady Jane Cheyne, daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, who died 08/10/1669. The monument was set up by Charles Cheyne, later Viscount Newhaven, who had bought Henry VIII's Chelsea palace from the executors of the Duke of Hamilton in 1657 but had probably been living in Chelsea before that. The Carrara marble was carved in Italy by Antonio Raggi who worked from a portrait to provide a life-like likeness. He was requested to have her Ladyship's head crowned, because she was a Duke's daughter, but this was refused on the basis that only the Virgin Mary could be depicted wearing a crown in a church. As a compromise there is a crown at her feet. It was suggested that this showed how modestly it was 'neglected and not esteemed in her life time'. The whole thing was shipped from Rome to Chelsea in thirty cases which took just three months to travel from Rome to Chelsea. It was erected in January 1672.
The life-size, alabaster figures of Lord and Lady Dacre, an infant and their pet dogs, are on the south wall of the church. Lord Dacre bought the Great House of Sir Thomas More and the surrounding estate from the heir of Sir William Paulet, later the Marquis of Winchester. (That Marquis achieved the very creditable record of maintaining royal favour through the reigns of four sovereigns, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth, and living to be 97 years old.)

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