The church was designed in a Greek revival style by architect Duncan Campbell Ferguson and completed in 1846 at a cost of £1,800.

It was operated by AW Ennis Limited until a fire in the 1980s forced the business to move to Virginia, County Cavan where it remains as of July 2020.

The squat church was constructed in Irish granite with a prostyle tetrastyle pedimented portico with four fluted Doric columns on a stylobate supporting frieze with Greek script which have the words "ΜΟΝΩ ΣΟΦΩ ΘΕΩ ΣΩΤΗΡI ΗΜΩΝ ΔOΞA" (Romanized monō sophō Theō sōtēri hēmōn doxa), referring to a biblical passage from Jude 1:25 and translating roughly as "To only-wise God, be glory through [the] savior".

[14] The remaining facade and side walls now sit at the front of 2000s apartment development although many of the main features are still intact.

[16][17] The building appears in a derelict state on the front cover of the 1997 single Keep on Chewin by the Jubilee Allstars.