The Architectural firm of Griffiths and Stephenson submitted plans and specifications for a Church of England to the Westown Church Committee (Mr W. N. Stephenson actually designed the church). On December 4th. 1933. the foundation stone was laid by Bishop Cherrington. The building contracting firm of Lovell and Rawlinson had been hired to build the new church. This was to be built of wood on solid concrete foundations. The timber used was to be all New Zealand grown and to include totara and rimu. Of the Hammer Beam Gothic design. the roof was to be of solid construc­tion and overlaid with Marseilles tiles. The design also provided for a bell touret at the apex of the nave and chancel, and the windows throughout were to be glazed with cathedral glass in diamond patterned leadlights.

The Anglican Church has been active in Westown for almost fifty years before the Church Building began. Offertory Reports of services at Westown date back to 1885. Regular twice monthly services were instituted in 1921 in the Westown School Room. 1922 saw the pur­chasing of the land on which St. Chad's now stands. from Mr E. Marfell of Toko. One acre 35.9 perches was transferred to St. Mary's Parochial Trust Board for the sum of £200. By 1925 the regular ser­vices had been transferred to the Westown Public Hall. adjacent to the land purchased by the Trust Board. A Ladies' Guild had been formed in 1922 to raise funds to erect a church, and by 1933 suffi­cient funds had been raised by them and the local Anglican com­munity to build the proposed church "free of all debt:" At this time an anonymous gift of £200 was made to the local committee to freehold the land.