Christ Church
Christ Church, Taitā
41°10′56″S 174°57′38″E / 41.18212°S 174.96042°E / -41.18212; 174.96042
Address	73 Eastern Hutt Road, Taitā, Lower Hutt, Wellington region, North Island
Country	New Zealand
Denomination	Anglican
Website	christ-church.org.nz
History
Status	Church
Consecrated	1 January 1854
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Octavius Bousfield
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Years built	1853
Specifications
Materials	Timber
Administration
Province	Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Diocese	Wellington
Parish	St Matthew's, Taitā
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
Official name	Christ Church (Anglican)[1]
Designated	21 September 1989
Reference no.	1325

Christ Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Taitā, Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The church is the oldest surviving church in the Wellington region.

History

The church is built on land donated by Algernon Grey Tollemache. Sidney Hirst, a Yorkshire-born carpenter, constructed the building, completing it in late 1853. The timber church has significant technical interest in that the method of its original construction did not require nails.

In the 1950s, efforts to protect the church played a role in the establishment of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.^[1]

An arsonist destroyed about a third of the interior of the building in 1989, but it has since been restored from photos and architectural drawings.^[2]