A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHRIST CHURCH
Soon after purchasing Mount Vincent Estate,  Mr William Knox Child wrote to the Bishop  of Australia, Bishop Broughton requesting that a clergyman visit Mount Vincent occasionally. As a result Rev. Robert Bolton, of Hexham Parish, visited. Services were held at Mount Vincent House, until the first church was built in 1848, on land donated by Mr William Knox Child.

This first church was constructed of `split slabs with squared corner posts, squared sleepers and wall plates and shingle roof. The slab of the walls were not nailed, but set in grooves cut in the sleepers and wall plates. After the building was erected, it was for some time without windows, the opening being covered with calico blinds. A collection was made among residents and a sum of twelve pounds was collected. Mr Child sent this money to England and purchased the windows'.

The bell, which still rings today, was donated by Mr Knox Child to the first church. It had previously hung from a beam on the verandah of Mount Vincent Estate to sound work and rest times for the convicts working on the Estate. Mr William Knox Child also used the bell to announce services at the house.

A prayer book was also donated to the first church on 15 August 1848, by the Sydney Diocesan Society. Restored in 1963, this prayer book is still in the church today.

Services were conducted in this slab church up until 1869 when the second church was built. The third and current church was opened on Easter Monday,17 April,1911.

One of Mr Knox Child's sons, later became the Rev. Canon Coles Child who was the first Archdeacon of Newcastle.