The property is owned by the Archdiocese of Canberra – Goulburn and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 30 April 2004.

[1] The Church of Christ the King was designed by Sydney Smith of Ogg & Serpell, 349 Collins Street, Melbourne on 17 January 1933.

The nave consists of six bays with a large sanctuary at the east and an entry narthex and choir loft at the west of the church.

[1] The Romanesque style of the building is established by the asymmetrical massing and use of red brick to create homogeneous heavily textured exterior walls.

Each bay has a corded plaster decoration around the full curve of the barrel vaulted ceiling, while Corinthian style capitals are prominent on the pillars and pilasters.

The leadlight windows were commissioned and installed before the emergence of "modern" tastes, the first four by Percy Barnard of Standard Glass Company, Sydney and the last two by Mark B Hill and D terry.

For example, St Patrick's crozier is planted in Ireland, while the nearby Christ the King window has our Lord standing upon Australia.

The Solemnity of Christ the King was but newly proclaimed when the church as erected, St Therese of Lisieux not long canonised and her doctrine flourishing (as but recently manifest in her elevation to the title of Doctor of the Church), St Maria Goretti recently canonised and capturing the period of plentiful vocations to sacred virginity, and Pope Pius X but recently canonised and his doctrine of frequent reception of the Holy Eucharist suffusing the interior of the church and its present and unbroken heritage of Catholic spirituality.

The church is made even more remarkable for the place and time of its construction in 1934, financially supported by an Irish-Catholic rural community following a period of severe economic depression.

[2][1] The Catholic Church of Christ the King was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 30 April 2004 having satisfied the following criteria.

Church of Christ, Taralga including its interior and moveable objects with such intactness and integrity is rare on a statewide basis.

The Church of Christ the King, Taralga including its interior and moveable objects with such intactness and integrity is representative of inter-war Romanesque architecture.