Christ Church, Wharton, traces its origins to an unconsecrated chapel of ease built c.1835 at the instigation of John Furnival, a curate of Davenham.

With money raised from public subscription, including gifts from Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld the queen mother (mother of Queen Victoria), John Bird Sumner (the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury)[1] and grants from the Church Building Societies, the chapel was substantially enlarged with a nave, chancel and bell tower.

The old chapel of ease became the north and south transepts of the new building (called Christ Church), which provided seating on benches for 350 persons.

The church supports missionary groups Open Doors,[6] Gideons International,[7] and AICMAR (African Institute for Contemporary Mission and Research).

The north and south transepts contain large metal panels overpainted with the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.

[11] This was replaced in 1920[1] by the present organ, the gift of Mrs Marion Newell in memory of her son, Sub-Lt Jack H.M. Newall, killed in action 13 November 1916, on the outskirts of Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre, France, during the Battle of the Ancre.

[16] At the west end of the nave is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone to Senior Aircraftsman Ian Shinner, killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) shooting at Roermond, the Netherlands, on May 2, 1988.