There was a church on this site from 1762, by 1790 it was too small for the people who wished to use it and it was also falling down, probably as a result of the coal mining underneath. Rebuilding of the second church took place between 1792-95 and the nave and west tower of the church shown in the photos below are of that date.

"The west doorway is typically eighteenth century Classical in design, but the nave windows are slightly pointed, having Gothic glazing bars and are arranged in two tiers. Inside, the original galleries go round three walls of the nave. Supported on slender, elegant cast-iron columns, the galleries are reached by staircases from the entrance porch. The east end was built on in 1827 and makes the church look like a grotesque medieval dwarf with its enormous Gothic hump of steep roofs supported in a bandy-legged fashion by buttresses, the whole accentuated by pinnacles on the corners ..."

From: "Portrait of the Potteries" - Bill Morland 1978