A mission church[a] was opened in the Acomb Moor area in 1952, in the parish of St Stephen's Church, Acomb.

The church building was designed by George Pace, with construction starting in 1969.

[3] The church has a large, unequal, pitched roof, with the ridge over the altar.

A weekday chapel opens off the narthex, with its own single-pitched roof, and a bell turret above.

The building incorporates a 12th-century doorway from the demolished St Maurice's Church, a 15th-century font from St Sampson's Church, and a 14th-century altar slab from York Minster.