Purcell Miller Tritton, a firm specialising in churches and cathedrals, were selected as the architects. The brief was to create a building that told the story of its destruction and was suitable for its new use as meeting place. On 12 November 2002, St Ethelburga’s was re-consecrated as a church by the Bishop of London. On the following day, the St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace was officially opened by HRH The Prince of Wales.

It took 10 years to raise the money and complete the rebuilding

The west front of the church, facing Bishopsgate, looks much as it did before. The main tower, amazingly, was left 70% intact by the bomb, and has been completely restored. The cupola is completely new, but houses a small 18th century bell. The original weather vane (1671) has been restored and reinstated, along with the 300 year old bell now used for the clock, itself an exact replica of that destroyed by the bomb. Inside, the stone floor and the north wall are entirely new, the wall made of rudgewick haven brickwork. In the other walls, a lot of existing stone was reused for rubble walling. The columns along the aisle on the south side were left largelystanding by the blast, but the upper portions are partly new, The stone coins, and the stone mullion windows on both the east and the west are entirely new, made from Portland stone. Pleasant offices above the aisle house the staff of the Centre for Reconciliation and Peace. The roof, which collapsed after the bombing, is of new structural steel.

Helen Whitaker re-used fragments of the earlier window

The east window is designed by Helen Whittaker, then a student of The Prince's Foundation in Shoreditch. It incorporates fragments from the previous east window, dating from 1878 and designed by Kempe. The window depicts St Ethelburga, who has gathered up the fragments and created a new cloak, and bears the text “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (from Psalm 122). The new altar and lectern are made from ancient timbers from the previous organ loft, by local craftsman Julian Humphries. The garden behind the church, designed by Silvia Crawford, opened in July 2004.