The foundation stone was laid on 23 July 1844 by Henry Pepys, the Bishop of Worcester.

[2] The church was built to designs of the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter with funds from the Birmingham Church Building Society.

[3] Its decorated gothic style and layout was admired by contemporary ecclesiologists for the correctness of its plan.

Out of this parish St Oswald's Church, Small Heath was formed.

The church contained an organ dating from 1849 by Banfield, later modified by Albert Keates.