The church was completed in 1876, and was designed by the architect James Sellars. The church was apparently modelled on the Parisian Gothic church, the Sainte Chapelle. It was built, by local subscriptions, to replace an iron church in the fields to the west of Byres Road.
The west-facing front facade has a superb rose window flanked by relief sculptures of angels. Like the original in Paris, there are twin octagonal towers and on the apex of the roof soars the delicate third spire or fleche, again in the style of the French original. The whole structure is supported on piles driven through the old mine workings which permeate the area.
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