It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is the earliest of three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg, who used many components in cast iron which were made at his Mersey Iron Foundry.

[3] The Liverpool merchant James Atherton, who later established the seaside resort of New Brighton, Wirral, donated the land for the church.

He positioned it at the rear of his villa, atop the hill where the Everton Beacon had stood prior to its destruction by a storm in 1803.

The foundation stone was laid on 19 April 1813 and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 26 October 1814.

[5] Its plan consists of a west tower, a seven-bay nave with aisles, and a short chancel.

The memorials include one under the tower to John Rackham who died in 1815 which was designed by Thomas Rickham and carved by S. & J. Franceys, a memorial to Thomas W. Wainwright, a surgeon who died in 1841 with a relief of the Good Samaritan by William Spence, and in the north gallery is a Gothic tabernacle by Emanuel Edward Geflowski to the memory of engineer Walter Fergus MacGregor who died in 1863.