[1] The church was commissioned by William Lawson, and constructed in 1837 to a design by Ignatius Bonomi.
[2] In 1992, the church and adjoining presbytery and schoolroom were purchased by the art collector Greville Worthington, who converted it into holiday accommodation.
[3] The church and attached buildings built of sandstone and have Welsh slate roofs.
The central doorway has a fanlight, the windows are sashes, and there is a coped parapet.
[2][4] Inside the church, there is a grand altar based on the tomb of Walter de Gray at York Minster, and below it, a sarcophagus transferred from the catacombs of Rome, said to contain the remains of Saint Innocent.