[1] The building itself is part of a small compound just inside the Jaffa Gate opposite King David's citadel.

Consecrated by Bishop Samuel Gobat in 21 January 1849, it is the oldest Protestant church building in the Middle East.

[3] Three architects worked on the church: the first (William Curry Hillier) died in 1840 of typhus,[4] while the second (James Wood Johns) was dismissed and replaced by Matthew Habershon in 1843.

Prior to the outbreak of the First World War, the Christ Church compound was also the site of the British Consulate.

Lewis conjectured that the subterranean tunnel was part of the upper aqueduct system that carried water eastward towards the Temple Mount and that it was probably connected to the cisterns that were under Herod's palace in the Citadel area.

In the church's apse a plaque contains the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, all three in Hebrew.