In 1861, Carlton was granted its own parish, and work commenced on a new building, completed in 1866.B. Atkinson, and was partly funded by Isabella Anne Stapleton.[2] The church is built of sandstone with Welsh slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry and a southwest steeple, and is in Gothic Revival style.The steeple has a tower with two stages, angle buttresses, a stair turret, tall two-light bell openings, and an octagonal broach spire with a clock face.Inside, there is a hammer beam roof in the nave, a trefoil piscina, and some wall memorials, one dating from 1738.