handsomest
ecclesiastical structure in the city. It is the third edifice which has
occupied the site. The first church was built in 1697, at the
organization of the parish, and was a plain square edifice with an ugly
steeple. In 1776, this building was destroyed in the great fire of that
year. A second church was built on the site of the old one, in 1790. In
1839, this was pulled down, and the present noble edifice was erected.
It was finished and consecrated in 1846.

The present church is a beautiful structure of brown-stone, built as
nearly in the pure Gothic style as modern churches ever are. The walls
are fifty feet in height, and the apex of the roof is sixty feet from the
floor of the church. The interior is finished in brown-stone, with
massive columns of the same material supporting the roof. There are no
transepts, but it is proposed to enlarge the church by the addition of
transepts, and to extend the choir back to the end of the churchyard.
The nave and the aisles make up the public portion of the church. The
choir is occupied by the clergy. The windows are of stained glass.
Those at the sides are very simple, but the oriel over the altar is a
grand work. There are two organs, a monster instrument over the main
entrance, and a smaller organ in the choir. Both are remarkably fine
instruments. The vestry rooms, which lie on each side of the chancel,
contain a number of handsome memorial tablets, and in the north room
there is a fine tomb in memory of Bishop Onderdonk, with a full-length
effigy of the deceased prelate in his episcopal robes.

Service is held twice a day in the church. On Sundays and high feast
days there is full service and a sermon. The choral service is used
altogether on such occasions. Trinity has long been famous for its
excellent music. The choir consists of men and boys, who are trained
with great care by the musical director. The service is very beautiful
and impressive, and is thoroughly in keeping with the grand and
cathedral-like edifice in which it is conducted. The two organs, the
voices of the choristers, and often the chime of bells, all combine to
send a flood of melody rolling through the beautiful arches such as is
never heard elsewhere in the city.

The spire is 284 feet in height, and is built of solid brownstone from
the base to the summit of the cross. It contains a clock, with three
faces, just above the roof of the church, and a chime of bells. Ab