It was built in 1878 and founded by the descendants of John Elwes at Billing Hall in the Romanesque Revival style.

He was the father of Gervase Elwes and Dudley Cary-Elwes, who was later the Catholic Bishop of Northampton.

It was built in the Romanesque Revival style and has a handcrafted copy of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help installed above the altar.

It was built by Ormsby of Scarisbrick who also did work on Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Bognor Regis.

[2] On 8 September 2006, Peter Doyle the Bishop of Northampton made the church the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.