However seven years later at the Parliamentary survey of 1655 records "Rowton Chapel hath no means belonging to it" The church lands were most likely seized during the Reformation and ever since has existed as a 'perpetual curacy' served from High Ercall.

[2] The ashes of John Beard (1871-1950), former leader of the Workers' Union, were scattered on the graves of his relatives in Rowton churchyard.

[3] Today Rowton church functions under the Diocese of Lichfield and serves the village and surrounding hamlets including Ellerdine.

It was established in 1929, through a bequest of the late church warden and local philanthropist John Bourne, who left a quantity of shares in Barclays Bank, the dividends of which were to be paid to the poor widows and widowers of Rowton, Ellerdine, Cold Hatton and Sytch Lane in the parish of Ercall Magna, Shropshire, England.

[20] Rowton came into the public eye in 2000 when it was revealed that the Ministry of Agriculture was using a farm in the village for trials of Genetically Modified crops.