It is a Grade II listed building,[1] the only surviving building by the British architect Robert Gunter Wetten (1804–1868).

It was consecrated on 4 April 1837 by Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester.

It became a parish church in its own right in 1896, by order of the Privy Council.

It is now part of a joint parish with Sts Thomas Minster, St Mary's, Carisbrooke and St Olave's, Gatcombe.

[5] An organ was provided when the church opened in 1837, which was later replaced by a pipe organ by Bryceson Brothers dating from 1890.