It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of St Helens, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the diocese of Liverpool.

[3] The walls of the church are built in a mixture of red and yellow sandstone and industrial waste in the form of copper slag, and the roofs are slated.

[2] In the transept is a wall memorial to Revd Abraham Augustus Nunn, the first incumbent of the church, who died in 1889.

[2][3] The two-manual pipe organ was designed by Henry Willis; the date of its installation is unknown.

[6] Pollard and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series note that this was an early church design by J. Medland Taylor, and that it is "by no means his best".