The current church building is the second one at this site and was designed by John H Buckeridge and built in 1891 as a "temporary" structure but remains in use to this day.

A parcel of land adjacent to the Anglican section of the cemetery was purchased and a stone church constructed to the design of Richard Suter, lay preacher to the congregation and diocesan architect.

Even though funds had been supplemented by borrowing, it was not possible to complete the church as designed and the western end was finished in brick and timber.

In the nineteenth century, Sunday schools were thought to be very important, not only to teach religion, where government education was secular, but to mould character and encourage a high standard of ethics in adult life.

The congregation could not afford two buildings and so a practical compromise was made in which the new hall was designed to also serve as an interim church.

He had been engaged in 1886 as Diocesan Architect by Bishop William Webber, whose vision for the Church in Queensland included the erection of substantial new buildings to serve an expanding population.

Christ Church is possibly his most innovative design and was built for £920 by Lars Anderson, a Danish sawmiller and builder based at Esk.

Anderson and his two brothers were very successful in this industry, partly because he had been instrumental in developing a system of light rail to extract timber from areas which were previously inaccessible due to difficult terrain.

[1] From the beginning the church served not only the residents of the surrounding area, but also the staff and inmates of the nearby Brisbane Gaol at Petrie Terrace.

The parish established a number of social activities including a men's society, ladies' guild and girl's friendly society, but it also made an important contribution to the wider community by the foundation by the Mother's Union of a home nursing service that was to evolve into St Luke's Nursing Service.

In 1912-14 over 500 headstones were removed to a memorial reserve set aside within the boundary of the old Anglican cemetery section, which contained some twenty four burials.

[1] In 1987 a ring road was proposed which meant resumption of a substantial section of the church grounds including part of the Memorial Reserve.

The hall was demolished and the headstones were relocated within the remaining memorial reserve, which contains some early burials and provides evidence for use of this area as Brisbane's first public cemetery.

[1] Situated at the corner of Hale and Chippendall Streets, Christ Church and its spire are still a visible and distinctive presence in the surrounding area, which is now occupied by light industry rather than residential buildings.

An open garden area lies between the church and rectory and the memorial reserve is accessed from there by a gate set in a wall.

The roof is clad with diamond shaped asbestos cement tiles and the pitch breaks to cover the verandahs on either side.

It is a single-storey timber house with a steeply pitched roof, clad in corrugated iron and decorated with fretted barge boards.

The house has lath and plaster walls in the main internal rooms, an unusual feature in a comparatively modest home.

Christ Church Milton is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history, containing within its grounds a section of Brisbane's first public cemetery.

The size and quality of the church building, intended originally as a Sunday School, demonstrates the importance given to religious education in nineteenth century Queensland.

The rectory is a good, intact example of a cottage ornee of its era, having a quality of design and finish unusual in a house of its modest scale.

The rectory has aesthetic significance as a well executed Gothic cottage ornee, a style perhaps thought particularly suitable for church house.

Christ Church Milton is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative and technical achievement at a particular period.

The design is an imaginative solution to the problem of containing diverse uses in a single building and shows a considered response to climate through its use of wide verandahs and a ventilator incorporated into the steeple.

It is associated with the work of Lars Anderson whose innovative methods contributed to the development of the Queensland timber industry particularly in the Brisbane Valley.