The original 1879 church, a red brick structure, designed by Charles Alfred Chastel de Boinville,Powles, Victorian Missionaries in Meji Japan, p.150. was financed in part by contributions from foreign residents in Tokyo under the direction of Parkes as Chairman of the Church Committee.Powles, Victorian Missionaries in Meji Japan, p.149. From its earliest days the church building was a shared resource between Japanese and English-speaking congregations with members of the foreign community attending services conducted by Armine F. King.Arnold, Church work in Japan, p.66. Although the original building was destroyed by an earthquake in 1894,Arnold, Church work in Japan, p.65. and a subsequent structure was lost in the 1944 Allied incendiary bombing, the rebuilt St. Andrew's Church, now known as St. Andrew's Cathedral is the current Cathedral Church of the Tokyo Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai.
