The founder of Timothy Whites (Chemists), Sir Woolmer White, left the land on which the Centre is built to St. Faith’s Church in 1913 for the purpose of building a church. It was many years before the parish had the finances to do this and then because of a stroke of good fortune. Canon Derek Brown had a vision of taking the Gospel to Denvilles by fulfilling Sir Woolmer’s wish for a church to be built, but there was the question of finance.

.In 1979, one of the Assistant Priests houses in Havant (5 Grove Road) was sold and the money used to build a bungalow at the centre for an Assistant Priest. From this point onwards, problems for the Centre started to mount. The Rector lost his two assistants and single-handed was required to conduct services at St Faith's, St Nicholas Chapel and the Centre, as well as being Chaplain to the Havant Memorial Hospital plus civic duties as the Mayor's chaplain. He was given a retired priest to live in the bungalow and help out in the parish. Unfortunately, he was a very sick man, who, in fact, added to the Rector's workload, because, when he was not in Haslar Hospital, he was receiving home communion at the bungalow! After a few years of struggle, help came with the arrival of Father Keith Uphill, who came to live in the bungalow and to assist the Rector until he got his own parish. He eventually did in 1984 when he moved to Morden, but not before he had made an outstanding contribution to the parish. Eventually, after the Rector struggled on against all the odds, the PCC decided to close Christ Church Centre. With the arrival from St Helena of Father John Ryder, the Centre re-opened, and all was well for a few years until he left to be Vicar of Godshill, Isle of Wight. With the help of visiting clergy, notably Father Dudley Vargas from Emsworth, Canon Derek Brown struggled on to keep the Centre open but eventually, declining numbers and mounting costs led the PCC to close the Centre in 1996.

The following year, Christ Church Centre was leased to the Bosmere Practice for 15 years and the Bungalow, after a period when it was leased to Southlands Housing Association, became the home of our retired Rector, Canon Derek Brown, in November 2000. The future of Christ Church Centre is at present uncertain as the Bosmere Practice moved out to new premises on 9 June 2007 having taken up the break point of the lease.