A chapel was built at the location in the Norman period, but by 1400 both it and the parish church, near Angram, were in ruins.
[1] In 1726, Edward Wolfe and Henrietta Thompson were married at the church.
[3] The church is built of cobbles, with a limestone plinth and quoins.
The main entrance is in the south wall and is through a reused 12th-century doorway, and there are also two early round-headed windows in the chancel.
Most of the other windows are in the Perpendicular style, while the east window was designed in 1880 by Hardman & Co.[3] Inside the church, there is a monument of 1602 to Jacob Thwaites, and a stone block with a hollow which was formerly either a cross base or a font.