In 1845, Henry Goulburn, Barrister and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, died aged 30. He had long desired to erect a church on Brockham Green and his friends decided to complete his plan in his memory.

The site was given by Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene, who had purchased the manor of Brockham from the Duke of Norfolk in 1838, and the architect was Benjamin Ferry, a pupil of Pugin.The question of using brick or flint or local stone was resolved when Sir Benjamin Brodie of Broome Park, Betchworth, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, offered local stone from his estate. Christ Church was consecrated by the Bishop of  Winchester in 1847 as a daughter of St. Michael's Betchworth, the incumbent receiving a stipend of about £70.

Unfortunately the perishable nature of the building stone soon became apparent and by 1883 major repairs were needed and has been an ongoing problem.

The interior is simple in design but of special note is the beautiful reredos depicting the last supper. It is of English Oak, carved in Munich and dedicated in 1886 in memory of the then Vicar's daughter who died four months after marriage.

The memorial windows, dedicated to benefactors, have gradually replaced the original plain glass, the most recent dated 1938 and 1939. The stone and carved oak pulpit (costing £34. 2s.0d) was dedicated in August 1889.

In 1877, the parish became part of the diocese of Rochester and in 1905 it was then transferred to the newly formed diocese of Southwark.