The church and burial ground were consecrated on 18 September 1840 by Dr Robert Carr, the Bishop of Worcester.

[3] An ecclesiastical parish was assigned in 1842 from St John the Baptist Church, Halesowen.

[4]: 43  Some of the area in the north was transferred into the newly created St Paul's, Blackheath parish in 1869.

A two-manual pipe organ by John Banfield was installed in 1868 but sold to the Waterfall Lane Mission, Old Hill, in 1919.

The replacement two-manual organ by J J Binns of Leeds was dedicated in December 1919 and was in use for over 40 years until transferred to the Church of the Epiphany in Corby, Northanmptonshire.