[2] The church was built in 1863 for the industrialist Edward Akroyd, and designed by W. H. Crossland.

[1] It stands on a wooded hillside in the Calder Valley opposite a model village built by Akroyd for his employees.

Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a five-sided apse, a south porch, and a north chapel acting as a transept.

[1] Inside the church, the nave has a waggon roof, while the chancel is tunnel vaulted.

These include depictions of saints on the south wall of the chancel, and stencilled designs on the ceilings of the aisles.