The foundation stone was laid in the presence of the Lord Bishop on 15 June 1853 by Robert Holden Esq of Nuthall Temple.

The trustees were Henry Kingscote of Spring Gardens, London, Francis Wright of Osmaston, Derbyshire, Revd.

It was designed by the architect Robert Jalland in the early English thin Gothic perpendicular style, with twin octagonals at the west end, crowned with pepper pots with crockets.

The large eastern window was divided by a transom, and exhibiting five under and five upper elongated lights with pointed arches.

John Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln on 8 April 1856,[4] three months after St Matthew's Church, Talbot Street.

[5] On the resignation of James Lewis in 1927, Canon Holbrook of Holy Trinity took charge of the parish.