[3] The church was built between 1827 and 1829 to a design by Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson.

[4] The foundation stone was laid on 19 July 1827, and the church was consecrated on 13 September 1829.

During the 2nd World War a young Don Estelle sang in the choir as a boy soprano, he later went on to appear in the hit 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and had a number one in the UK Singles Chart with Whispering Grass.

Along the sides of the aisles are buttresses and transomed two-light windows with cinquefoil heads containing Perpendicular tracery.

[2] Inside the church are seven-bay Perpendicular-style arcades carried on slim piers, and galleries on three sides.

The stained glass in the central east window is by Shrigley and Hunt and dates from 1896.