Christ Church Lausanne

The first recorded service took place on 10 November 1816, in the Chapelle de la Mercerie (St Etienne), just below Lausanne Cathedral.

In 1822, the Revd Isaac Kendal Cheesbrough began his ministry as the first permanent Chaplain, and remained in office for 35 years until his death in 1857.

George Edmund Street, a distinguished English architect famous for his Gothic revival style, designed the building.

The asymmetrical design (more obvious before the addition of the south aisle); the vaulted ceiling and roof timbers; the rectangular chancel; the columns with capitals and cylindrical abacus; and the paired windows with oculus are all English in style.

This beautiful instrument is still in use today and was renovated in 1995 by the current Churchwarden Dr David Elliott, retaining its original pneumatic action.

After almost two centuries of Anglican worship in Lausanne, the Christ Church community is an established part of the religious life of the city.

Ecumenical contacts are maintained and promoted, and the Anglican Church was a founder member of the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches in the Canton of Vaud, (La Communauté des Eglises chrétiennes dans le canton de Vaud, CECCV) formed in 2002.