It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.

The parish was in the Traditional Catholic tradition,[2] and passed resolutions to reject the ordination of women and so received alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Beverley.

[3] It has now rescinded those resolutions and receives episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Newcastle.

The 22 member council, which meets monthly, comprises two clergy, one lay reader, two churchwardens, one treasurer, one diocesan synod representative (who attends meetings with others from the Diocese of Newcastle and Tynemouth Deanery), three deanery synod representatives (who attend meetings with others from the Tynemouth Deanery) and 12 lay members.

A former organist, John Percival Forster, was killed in the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, aged 28.