[2] The initial structure was described as "handsome, in the later English style, with a square embattled tower with crocketed pinnacles at the angles, and surmounted by a lofty spire; the walls are strengthened with buttresses terminating in pinnacles, and crowned with an embattled parapet.

Beaver Henry Blacker, the parish decided to extend the church with a transept (on the south side) opening by two arches into the nave, a chancel, robing-room and porch.

Future Bishop of Killaloe Dr. Sterling Berry served from 1892 to 1913 as Canon in the church prior to elevation to the Bishopric.

On the site of the church, there is a Parish Centre, the Barrett Cheshire Home and the Rectory.

Its stop-list was almost identical, those of the organs in St. Paul's Glenageary and St. Patrick's Dalkey (also built by Forster and Andrews) prior to the latter two instruments' rebuilds.