The building does not announce itself as anything out of the ordinary, yet the ground it occupies quietly complicates the usual story of a parish church that has simply always been where it is.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a T-shaped Roman Catholic chapel on the east side of the village street, roughly a hundred metres south of where the present church now stands. That T-plan was a common enough configuration for rural Catholic chapels of the period, allowing a modest transept to increase capacity without the expense of a full cruciform build. The topographer Samuel Lewis, writing in 1837, described a church in the area as having been built in 1820 and considerably enlarged in 1830, and this is very likely the same structure. By the time the OS surveyors were working in the early 1840s, it was already a building with two distinct phases of construction behind it. What happened to it afterwards is less clear. The current parish hall appears to occupy the same site, and the chapel may have been absorbed into that later structure rather than demolished outright, leaving its footprint, and possibly some of its fabric, embedded in a building that now serves an entirely different purpose.