The church was built between 1873 and 1875, with the tower being completed in 1891, and was designed by Henry Langley in the Gothic Revival style.

In 1843, a second and more sizeable stuccoed timber frame building was erected just south of the earlier church.

The frame of the original Methodist Meeting House survives as the Heritage Pavilion in Ashburnham Memorial Park beside the Peterborough Museum & Archives.

By 1872 the congregation was in need of a larger space and purchased two lots from William Cluxton to build their new church.

Construction cost $60,000 and the new George Street Methodist Church was formally dedicated on Christmas Day 1875.

The old 'Stone Kirk' was destroyed by a fire in 1884 and a new Gothic Revival church was constructed in 1885 by Gordon & Helliwell.