In 1933, it became a chapel of ease to St. Gabriel's Church, Weoley Castle.

[3] The construction of a new church began in the ward in 1964 and it was consecrated on 12 July 1966 to a design by H Norman Haines of London on Romsley Road.

[4] The church was built opposite the new Bartley Green Shopping Centre.

In 1977, St Francis Church Centre was constructed in the Glenside area of Bartley Green.

The "Bartley Green Pictorial" was first published in September 1967 and existed until 1975.