The church is a grade II Listed building and serves Clifford and the surrounding villages.

The church was built to serve the population of Irish workers that came to work in the flax mill owned by the Grimston Brothers that was established in the village in 1831.

[1] Two of the stained glass windows, in the Lady Chapel and north aisle, has been attributed to Augustus Pugin (1848).

[1] The church is built in ashlar Magnesian Limestone and has a green slate roof in the Romanesque style.

There is a seven bay aisled nave and chancel with small east Lady Chapel and a five-stage west tower with buttresses to the fourth stage.