It is part of the Anglican Smestow Vale team ministry comprising the parishes of Wombourne, Trysull, Swindon, Himley and Bobbington, in the Diocese of Lichfield.

Its foundation may have been linked to the Battle of Tettenhall fought on 5 August 910, during which the allied Anglo-Saxon forces of Mercia and Wessex defeated an army of Northumbrian Vikings.

He engaged the famous architectural practice of George Edmund Street to demolish what in ecclesiastical terms was still a new building and erect a replacement in a more academic Gothic revival style.

Glazed Minton tiles on rear wall of chancel frame a painted reredos, made to Street's design by Clayton and Bell, showing the Crucifixion to the centre flanked by saints.

[1] On south wall is a late-medieval alabaster relief carving showing the Parable of the Good Samaritan, donated in the late 19th century by Thomas Shaw-Hellier of the Wodehouse.

Seven windows in nave, and an eighth in tower base, are by Charles Eamer Kempe, all showing various saints, were added piecemeal during the second half of the 19th century.

[1] The Lady Chapel has two windows by Graham Chaplin that form a single commission, showing the Holy Spirit during Annunciation and Pentecost, installed in 2000 to celebrate the Millennium.