It was built in 1890, consecrated in 1894, and is a one-story, Gothic Revival style board-and-batten frame building.

[1] Due to the lack of a regular congregation to care for the building since the early 1980s, one or two annual services were held during Thanksgiving and at other special events from the 1990s to 2008.

[3] Endowments for the maintenance held by the Winston-Salem Foundation left by St. Philip's former members helped fund the maintenance since the 1930s,[4] as well as grants from the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, all of which was overseen by a Historic Property Committee of the Diocese.

[5] The diocese considers the relocation of the building to be an instance of preservation via adaptive reuse.

A separate group has also formed an ecumenical congregation interested in worshiping in the Episcopal tradition in Germanton was formed in June 2012 and currently meets weekly, but was unable to get permission to use the church building before it was removed in the fall of 2012.