It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashton-under-Lyne, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.

[5] In the National Heritage List for England it is described as a "particularly imposing and elaborate example of a Commissioners' Church".

Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave with a canted vestry at the east end acting as a chancel.

The tower is in three stages with buttresses at the corners rising to piers surmounted by pinnacles.

These contain tracery in Perpendicular style constructed in cast iron and painted to look like stone.

[5] There are galleries on three sides in the church, carried on quatrefoil cast iron columns.

The stained glass in the east rose window dates from the 1830s, and is by David Evans, of Shrewsbury; it depicts the twelve apostles.