It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Permission for the construction of the church was given 1812 by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty.

[3] The east window has stained glass by Mayer of Munich,[3] which was installed in 1910 in memory of the American prisoners who helped to build the church.

The window was partially funded by a donation of £250, in 1908, from the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 as part of their work commemorating those who died in the War of 1812.

[3] The church was declared redundant on 1 November 1995, and was vested in the Trust on 8 January 2001.