The inscription as recorded in the Sheffield Iris of 15 June 1841 read To the glory of God, and for the salvation of man, the first stone of a church, to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity, built and endowed by voluntary subscription, and designed for the worship of Almighty God, according to the doctrine and discipline of the Apostolic Reformed Church of England and Ireland, was laid by the Venerable Walter Augustus Shirley, M.A., Archdeacon of Derby, on Wednesday, the 9th of June, in the year of our Lord, 1841, and in the fourth year of the reign of her most gracious majesty Queen Victoria.

W. Melville, M.A., Rector of Matlock; Messrs. Weightman and Hadfield, Architects.The church was built by John Grey Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield and consecrated on 4 October 1842[5] by the Bishop of Hereford Rt.

The south aisle and west end of the nave were partitioned off and cleared.

The pipe organ was built by William Hill in 1876 at a cost of £350 (equivalent to £41,600 in 2023).

[8] It was opened on 18 April 1876 by Arthur Smith, organist of St Werburgh's Church, Derby.