[3] The church cost about £1,300 (equivalent to £150,000 in 2023),[4] most of which was raised by public subscription, and the land was given by the Duke of Buccleuch.

[9] The church is constructed in sandstone with a stone slate roof, and is in Early English style.

The roof is steeply pitched and divided into three, although internally the church consists of a single chamber with a flat ceiling.

[10] In the Buildings of England series it is described as "a small, rather strange church",[3] but Hughes disagrees, saying "it is one of Edmund Sharpe's more delightful designs".

[5] In the National Heritage List for England the description states that it is an "unusually unaltered example of an early 19th-century church".