It was constructed using locally available flint, clunch and Barnack stone (oolitic Lincolnshire limestone).

Simon Langham when Bishop of Ely (1362–1366) was a major benefactor of Peterhouse, Cambridge and gave the rectory of Cherry Hinton to the college.

The east window was replaced in the early Tudor period by a five-light version in the perpendicular style.

The ashlar-faced tower is also in the perpendicular style though there are remnants of Norman origin in the arches.

[4][1] In the tower is the coffin-shaped tablet of Captain Serocold (d.1794) by John Flaxman.