The chancel and attached chapel represent the oldest part with the nave having been rebuilt twice and the tower added in the 15th century.

The chancel is the oldest part of the structure,[3] and construction of the current church started in the 12th century on the site of an earlier Saxon one.

[7] The Trinity Chapel dates from 1430 to 1460 and was endowed for a priest of the nearby Abbey to say masses for the souls of Kings and Queens.

[6] During the 1860s George Gilbert Scott led a team undertaking a Victorian restoration to strengthen the church, which included moving many of the bodies interred under the nave to the Lady Chapel.

[12] In 2019 a design competition was started to commission statues for niches on the church wall, to replace those removed and lost in 1963.

[1] The nave includes arcades of tall piers with carved angels at the tops supporting arches and windows.

[7][16] The three-storey south porch has carved oriel windows and crenellated parapets topped by decorative pinnacles.

[3] Some of these include fragments of medieval glass but are largely 18th century by Hardman & Co.[1][2] The east windows of the chancel and south chapel were built around 1300.

[7] There are some surviving fragments of wall paintings particularly in St Catherines chapel,[3] and a wide variety of tombs and monuments.

[5] The church possesses a pipe organ built by Father Willis in 1895 with a case by George Gilbert Scott.