The church was built as a memorial to
Philip Twells, MP and city banker, by his wife Georgiana Twells, who employed the architect
William Butterfield. The foundation was stone was laid in 1881 and the church opened in 1883. The artist
Charles Edgar Buckeridge painted the ceiling and east wall of the sanctuary and after his early death the side walls were painted by
Nathaniel Westlake. The walls and ceiling were conserved in 2012 by Hirst Conservation with the help of local donations and the
Heritage Lottery Fund. The stained-glass windows are by
Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The church installed a new, lighter ring of 8 bells cast by the
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and the older, larger bells were bought by
Grace Church Cathedral in Charleston, United States, where they were installed and augmented to 10 with two new treble bells cast in the same year, also by Whitechapel. ==Gallery==