Exterior
The church was built with harled rubble walls and granite dressing stones and surrounds. The wide roof is slated. The church is a fairly simple rectangular building with a projecting south bay which contains the doors into the church and the stairway up to the gallery. There are Gothic Revival features, including the pinnacled buttresses, pointed-arch (lancet) windows and pinnacled bellcote. The church is surrounded by a gravel and tarmac path.
The principle elevation is the south gable, which overlooks the village and graveyard and can be seen from quite a distance. The projecting central bay has a single large window with thick stone tracery and hoodmould. Above is a small granite, gabled bellcote with crocketted finial. The bay has slender corner buttresses with large crocketted pinnacles and the corners of the south gable have diagonal buttresses with matching pinnacles. The doorways into the church are recessed and have double leaf wooden doors and small hoodmoulds. Alongside are blank lancet windows in the gable, which appear to have been designed that way (blocked rather than with glass).
The east and west side elevations have five bays with five large lancet windows with hoodmoulds. They have latticed glass panes, some of which are coloured. The rear (north) gable of the church is largely hidden from view and is very plain and undecorated. There is a single three-light window, which has stained glass in the central lancet, and a small, lean-to vestry beneath the window.
Interior
The interior is fairly simple and mostly of pine wood. There is a gallery at the south end, a wide nave and sanctuary at the north end. The sanctuary is the full width of the church and has tall wooden communion rails with trefoil panels. There is a wide rectangular pulpit against the north wall with steps on either side for access. There is also a wooden backboard and a door to the vestry on either side of the pulpit. The communion table features the most ornate carving in the church, with foliage and trefoil panels. A small pipe organ is positioned in the north-east corner and there is a marble memorial tablet to an earlier minister.
The nave has original pine pews, divided by two aisles. There are a number of choir stalls or pews in front of the sanctuary, which are at right angles to the other nave pews. The gallery at the south end is supported on doric columns and has a simple panelled front. A dividing wall with glass windows and doors has been inserted under the gallery to divide the area beneath the gallery from the nave. This area, at the back of the nave, is now used for displays and meetings. The gallery itself retains its original pews and is accessed by a staircase in the south bay.
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