 The church was consecrated on 31 August 1849 and was designed by Henry Woodyer an architect of the Oxford movement and a graduate of Merton College.The initial census data for Smeeton Westerby given on the Vision of Britain website was 390 for the population in 1881.For the next 40 years the pattern of total population decreased, in 1921 the population of Smeeton Westerby was 302.