It was a wealthy manor, including a minor port on the Humber and remaining the market town for South Holderness until the later 19th  century.

Evidence in the bases of the nave arcades, the west responds, and the lower parts of the crossing piers indicates a major reconstruction which was begun c. 1280, but probably did not go far.

A Lady Chapel in the form of a shallow three-sided apse projects from the centre of the east wall of the south transept.

From this rises a Perpendicular spire embraced at its base by an arcaded octagonal screen, tied by thin flying buttresses to corner pinnacles on the tower.

[6] Jenkins praises this as ‘a device of great delicacy’, and the whole composition as perfect in proportion with the nave and transepts.

(This statue, relocated from the exterior below the east window, has been 'linked stylistically' by Pevsner to a similar statue over the south door of St Mary's Church, Welwick, and attributed to a school of Beverley masons who produced numerous sculptures and monuments in the area, including the famous Percy tomb in Beverley Minster.

[8]) An extra bay between the crossing and the chancel arch, corresponding to the transept aisles, adds a surprisingly satisfying depth to the composition.

In the chancel are sedilia and piscina with low ogee gables and much crocketing, opposite a stone Easter Sepulchre in the same spirit.

A most unusual feature is the tower stairway in the south transept, which emerges into the open through doorways above both the east and west arcades.

A large reredos of gilded oak with twelve Northumbrian saints and the Virgin fills the space below the east window.

[10] The church is part of a group of parishes which includes: The organ was built by Forster and Andrews in 1891.