It has a direct connection to Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill in Twickenham and the members of the "Committee of Taste" which strongly influenced its design.

Its intact interior and matching furniture are the sole example of this Walpolean Gothick style of Georgian church architecture and furnishing.

[citation needed] On 4 November 2013 was culminated 12 years and £1.25 million of repairs to restore this "Strawberry Hill Gothic" Church.

The weathered carvings are the work of the Herefordshire School of sculpture, which dominated in the western counties during the mid-12th Century.

Pilots who trained here took part in both the Normandy landings and Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in the Netherlands.