It was built by the pious Anglo-Catholic, Emily Charlotte Meynell Ingram (sister of Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax) in memory of Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram who died in May 1871.

[1] Further extension and additions took place until the church achieved its present form in 1906.

John Betjeman described the church as "the masterpiece of its late Victorian architect G.F. Bodley" and "great architecture; original, well massed, well sited, well detailed; very English".

It was installed in Hoar Cross by Bishop and Son in 1876 and enlarged by Conacher in 1935.

As a result of a very generous donation, it underwent extensive repair and finished at the end of 2012.