The first Anglican church services had been conducted at Fort Charlotte during the British occupation of Mobile.

[1] In 1906 a major hurricane swept through the Mobile area and the storm crashed the original steeple through the roof, destroying both in the process.

[2] The interior, which had to be rebuilt following the 1906 disaster, features stained glass windows by Franz Mayer & Co. and Tiffany Studios.

[1] Some years beforehand, a theologically conservative rector, his staff, and some communicants attempted to withdraw Christ Church from the Episcopal denomination in favor of a body associated with the Anglican realignment movement.

However, the attempted schism was not successful, and the clergy and disaffected parishioners departed, with the parish rebuilding enough to the point that the Diocese chose it as the seat for its bishop, something it lacked for its first 35 years of existence.