[1] The church is in a district originally part of the parish of St Thomas the Martyr.

[3] It was designed by the 19th-century Gothic Revival architect Samuel Sanders Teulon of Westminster, London and built by the local firm of Honour & Castle.

The foundation stone was laid in 1870 and the church was consecrated on 10 April 1872 by John Mackarness, the Bishop of Oxford.

The church was the setting of a Morse detective story, Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter.

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