History of christ church

The site of the present Church building was purchased in 1937 and in April 1939 a meeting of interested residents met to consider the establishment of a Congregational Church. The first service was held in a classroom in St Dunstan’s school in St John’s Road Petts Wood. Petts Wood Congregational Church, as it was called, was officially constituted in November 1939, and with the constitution of the church so a Sunday school was started with 15 children. However, with the shadow of war and bombing raids most of the children were evacuated forcing the closure of the Sunday school but the Church itself continued to meet at St Dunstan’s despite the difficulties experienced with the raids.

In 1941 the Sunday school restarted, and Church numbers grew, and a licence was granted for the erection of a prefabricated hut, on the site of the present Kingsbury Hall, and this was opened in 1943. In spite of continuing bombing the church was well established and continued to grow and in 1949 the original prefabricated hut was extended.