The church is Anglican and in the mid-higher category over the standard grade, Grade II*. The first version of the building here was built, on a prominent site on a spur of the North Downs, to designs by James Thomas Knowles (1806-1884), father of Sir James Knowles, in 1843. To this aisles were added to designs by Ford & Hesketh 1867. The great change came in 1889, when John Loughborough Pearson was called on to remodel the church. He replaced the original building with a new nave and chancel, retaining the 1867 aisles, and in 1895 he added a new south-west steeple. The Pearson work is faced externally with stock brick with stone dressings, contrasting with the flint facings of the aisles.