It is a Gothic Revival style church and a Grade II listed building.

[1] The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title of Our Lady of Consolation which merited a pontifical decree of coronation from Pope Leo XIII on 12 July 1893.

[3] After the house was sold, Edward Caryll gave the presbytery to the priests and endowed the mission with £1,300.

Crawley's original plan for the church included transepts, a choir for the nuns, and a tower with spire.

[7] From 1880 onwards, annual pilgrimages were made every July from the diocese's cathedral in Southwark.

[4] In 1896, under the direction of the architect Frederick Walters, the sanctuary, side chapels and bell turret were added to the church.

[1] In 1953, the writer and historian Hilaire Belloc died and was buried in the shrine church.

Within the parish is the only post-Reformation Carthusian monastery in the United Kingdom, St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster.

The parish of Corpus Christi Church in Henfield is served from West Grinstead and it has Sunday Mass at 9:00am.