The present church has stood on the site since 1888. It replaced an earlier church, which had burnt down. The earlier church was only finished in 1879. The tower and spire, claimed to be the highest in Sheffield, survive from the earlier church, having been incorporated into the later church. The 1st edition OS map of 1855 shows a field with irregular boundaries located on the eastern edge of Upper Rand Moor. The area was probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from Rand Moor. Legibility of these earlier types is invisible. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).