History

St George's is one of several Anglican parishes that serve the town of Shrewsbury. The church is on high ground in Frankwell, to the northwest of Shrewsbury town centre and is separated from it by the River Severn.  The Welsh Bridge provides the main river crossing on the west side of the town centre, giving access to Thomas Telford's road, which runs through one side of the parish out towards the Welsh border and on to Holyhead.

The area within the parish boundary is largely residential but it also contains Copthorne Barracks, once the home of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and now Headquarters of the Fifth Division of the British Army.  Mount House, now the District Valuer's Office, was once the childhood home of Charles Darwin.  Because of the risk of flooding in winter the riverside meadows, where young Charles started his early natural history studies, remain undeveloped. Since the 1st June 2002 the name of the parish was changed to Shrewsbury St George with Greenfields and the new boundary includes the areas of Greenfields, Coton Hill and Herongate. Although these new areas are now on the other side of the river there was a time many years when the river made a great loop to the north, around the area now added to the parish.

Services take place in the parish church but services are also provided in the Methodist Church in Greenfields under the terms of the Local Ecumenical Partnership Agreement that exists in that area.

A Directory of 1928 has the following description of St George's Church :

St George's is an ecclesiastical parish, created a separate parish in 1857 out of the original parish of St Chad and consists of the township of Frankwell. The church in Frankwell stands on an eminence and was named after a mediaeval chapel of St George which stood somewhere near the old Welsh Bridge. It was erected in 1832 at a cost of £4,000 as a chapel. It has a tower with four pinnacles at the west end cotaining one bell and a peal of 8 tubular bells hung in commemoration of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. The stained east window was presented in 1832 by the Rev'd Richard Scott BD., those in the transepts by the maker, Dr David Evans. The interior was re-arranged in 1869 and there are now (1829) 800 sittings. The Register dates from 1837. In 1928 the living, a vicarage + £400, was the gift of the Vicar of St Chad.