The church was built between 1876 and 1877 on an acre of land at Butler's Hill given by the fifth Duke of Portland.

It was built to provide for the spiritual needs of the growing number of miners and their families in the Butler's Hill area of Hucknall.

Hanging in the chancel arch it bears a rough wooden cross originally on the grave of an ex-member of the congregation killed in the First World War.

[7] Most of the windows are single lancets, although there is a circular quatrefoil above the two at the west end which are in memory of local miners killed in World War II.

The east window is the artistic highlight of the church portraying the Crucifixion.