The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

Egmanton appears in a Domesday Book entry for 1085 as among the possessions of Roger de Busli, but there is no mention of a church or priest.

The stone building has a chancel, clerestoried nave, a north aisle of four bays, a south transept and a west tower.

The origin of the shrine is a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary to a local woman in nearby Ladywood, sometime prior to the 12th century.

[3] The present image of Our Lady of Egmanton, crowned and with the Holy Child, was the work of Sir Ninian Comper and was erected as part of a major restoration in 1896 carried out under the patronage of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle.