Grade II listed,[1] it was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811–78).

[1] Sir Edward Colebrooke (1813–90), who came to live in Ottershaw in 1859, built a chapel on his estate in 1863 as a memorial to his deceased son and heir.

A tower, the gift of Edward Gibb, was added in 1885 and new parish rooms in the 1990s.

Installed in 1901, it was made by the Sussex-based firm Norman and Burt and incorporates wooden figures carved in Oberammergau,[1] in Bavaria, Germany.

Two Commonwealth servicemen of World War II – Leading Aircraftman George Barnett of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (who died on 17 October 1943) and Corporal Alexander Cook of the Worcestershire Regiment (who died on 21 September 1947) – are buried in the churchyard.