There has been a church building on this site since around 700 AD. In around 1100 AD a stone Norman church replaced the building then on the site and there have been changes since. There were two rebuilds in Victorian times and the current building dates from 1896 - 97. In 1995 St Mary's Room was built onto the North of the church and this provides us with a meeting room for Christian Fellowship after services, social events and courses such as the Lent course. The room has modern audio visual equipment and adjoining kitchen & toilets.

The history of the site means that there are a few Norman artefacts inside the Grade 1 listed building, together with two exceptional Viking hogback tombs and the "Fishing Stone" which has both Viking and Christian symbolism. The most famous Anglo- Danish monument is the "Gosforth Cross" a High Cross which is a Scheduled Monument of National Importance and shows integration of Viking myth and Christian beliefs (there is a copy in the British Museum in London). As a result we have visitors from all over the world.