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Parish church. 1884 by WJ Hopkins and built by Henry Surnam of Astwood Bank. Altered and extended 1911 by W.G. St. John Cogswell with George Huxley & Co of Astwood Bank as builders. Part snecked dressed Bromsgrove sandstone faced with brick internally and part roughcast brick; plain tiled roof (re-roofed in 1948) has parapet with kneelers and gablets at south end and square bell-turret at centre of ridge with pyramidal roof. 3-bay aisled nave aligned north/south with west porch, 2-bay chancel with west organ chamber and vestry and east chapel in transepts. The church was built in two phases. Hopkins� tall south tower and 24 metre long nave were never completed due to lack of funds and the present nave is half of its intended size. Decorated style. Nave has very tall and narrow 2-light north window. Side elevations have gabled buttresses and paired lancets. West porch is timber-framed on chamfered stone base with hipped roof. Chancel has corner buttresses with offsets and gablets at south end and chamfered plinth.3-light window at south end and 2-light windows in side elevations at southern end, all with sill strings and hoodmoulds with carved stops. Organ chamber and vestry set beneath catslide roof and clearly intended as base to more substantial structure. Tall triple-chamfered plinth with broad quatrefoil frieze above. Large corner buttresses. Central west doorway has a pointed archway partly concealed behind roof; 3 moulded orders and nookshafts with foliated capitals and moulded bases. 5-light window in south side and on the north side is a flat-roofed porch. This has a north doorway and single-light west windows, both with chamfered surrounds. East Lady chapel also set beneath catslide roof but with a large central gable. 2-light window beneath north gable has a hoodmould with carved stops and a sill string which continues as a hoodmould above the adjacent blocked doorway. 3-light square-headed window with ogee lights in south side and entrance in north-east angle. Interior is light and spacious. Nave arcades have octagonal piers without capitals and with very short main sides and long chamfers in section. Narrow aisles. Pointed arches of 2 orders. Tall chancel arch, almost 14 metres high, springs from cluster of 3 short columns with foliated capitals and moulded bases, all on very large corbel with foliated detail. Arches to chapel and organ chamber similarly detailed, with foliated capitals continuing as foliated frieze within jambs. Scissor-truss roofs on plain corbels. Chancel is faced with yellow brick enriched with cruciform frieze in red and blue brick. Carving is by Martyn & Evans. Original fittings include octagonal stone font with circular symbols on bowl carved in relief, oak altar rails with traceried open panels, oak pulpit with traceried blind panels and eagle lectern. Good coloured glass in window at south end and also 1970 stained-glass window by Claude Price in the north chapel.
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Although this church was never completed on the grand scale that its architect intended, it is still of undoubted architectural merit, with a fine and light interior, a tall and particularly elegant north window, unusual nave arcading, and a well-proportioned and detailed chancel that gives a clear indication of Hopkins� bold scheme. The building is an important part of the history of the locality, and it remains a focal point of the local community and a key element within the local townscape forming an important group with the adjacent church hall and school buildings
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