Christ Church had its beginnings when Bronxville was a quiet village of no more than 300 people. Several Episcopalians met for the first time in 1898 in the gray-shingled building called the "Casino" located above where the village tennis courts are now on Garden Avenue. 

Two years later, on October 14th, 1900, the Rev. William W. Smith conducted the first regularly scheduled service in a rented room over what became Peck's Grocery Store on Parkway Road.

Dr. Smith's diary from that first Sunday reads as follows: "I began the services in a store, across the tracks from the R.R. Station with Morning Prayer, Ante-Communion and Sermon, 10:30 a.m. 54 present. Collection $23.80. Dined with the Halls."

The congregation quickly grew and soon it became necessary to find permanent quarters. William Van Duzer Lawrence donated a triangle-shaped piece of land up from the Bronxville railroad station on  Sagamore Road (then called Dusenberry Lane). A small stonoe church was built and dedicated in 1902. Eight years later it was necessary to enlarge the building to accommodate a growing congregation.

As the Village of Bronxville grew, so did Christ Church, and it was determined that the now enlarged original church was no longer adequate. the rector, Albert Willson, urged the vestry to consider building a "church worthy of this beautiful suburb and adequate to meet the needs of its rapidly increasing population for years to come."

Bertram Grosvernor Goodhue's reputation as architect (St. Mark's in Mt. Kisco, St. Bartholomew's in New York City and the Chapel at West Point) was help in the highest esteem and he was engaged in 1922 to design a new building for Christ Church. Although Goodhue died in 1924, his firm completed the plans for the new church and construction was begun in the lated spring of 1925.

Upon the completion of the church in the fall of 1926, an article in the local press described Christ Church as  follows: "Take the train from New York City to the station in Bronxville, turn to the left , and go up the rise of a slight hill and Christ Church is before you... But your eye will not fail to catch at once the rise of the rugged outlines of the Norman tower at the rear and the exquisitely graceful cross-mounted flèche that completes it."

The flèche (or spire) was said to have been inspired by Mont Saint Michel in Normandy and shows Goodhue's fascination with Gothic forms and their adaptation to modern uses. Inside, the building is reminiscent of English country Gothic.