[4] The church, designed by Edward Haycock in Early Decorated style, was built in 1857–58 on the site of a chapel of 1835.

It was a chapel of ease until the parish of Welsh Frankton was created in 1865 from parts of those of Ellesmere and Whittington.

The first incumbent was Oswald Moseley Feilden, who donated the marble reredos in 1870.

[5] The village's war memorial consists of a stone shrine surmounted by a cross built into the churchyard wall on the side of the main road between Ellesmere and Oswestry, bearing a marble plaque listing those killed in the First World War, with two names from the Second World War below it.

[8] Future Victoria Cross recipient John Brunt (1922–1944) attended village school at Welsh Frankton before going up to Ellesmere College.