The seventeenth-century tower and old chancel are in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT); the key is kept at the nearby Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

It is of medieval origin, but the oldest surviving part of the church is the tower, which was rebuilt between 1601 and 1608.

The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1893–94 in stone from Coxbench quarry, the architect being Sir Arthur Blomfield.

[1] It contains many of its original fittings and furniture, including an elaborate wrought iron font cover made by Robert Bakewell.

[2] The reredos contains panels inscribed with the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed.

The stained glass is from the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe, and there is a monument dated 1832 by Francis Leggatt Chantrey.

[13] After several restorations and enlargements (including Henry Willis & Sons in 1905), it became a four-manual instrument with 47 speaking stops.

[citation needed] In 1989 the organ was sold to All Saints, Newton Heath, Greater Manchester but never installed.