The hamlet of Kilnsea lies in the parish of Easington, almost at the tip of Spurn Head, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

[1][a] Some thirty years later, on 22 April 1865, the Yorkshire Gazette recorded; "the great liberality of Mr. A. Burgess C.E., of Blackheath, who having occasionally passed (Kilnsea) on his professional visits to Spurn Point and struck with the poverty of the place, having heard that an effort was being made for building a church, most kindly offered plans free of all expense, and gave £150 towards its completion".

[1] The purpose of Alfred Burges's "professional visits" to Spurn Point is unclear, but his partner in the engineering firm of Messrs. Walker and Burgess, James Walker, was Chief Engineer for Trinity House, the body with responsibility, then and now, for lighthouse construction in Great Britain.

[7] A tablet, commemorating two men from the village who were killed in the First World War, was removed when the church was decommissioned and is now located at All Saints', Easington.

[10] It is noted by David Neave in his revised Pevsner Yorkshire: York and the East Riding[1] and was listed as a Grade II building on 14 December 2018.