The present church building is the fifth
erected on this site. The first, about
which we have very little information,
was built as a temporary building around
1733-1734, and was later converted to a
parsonage and then torn down in 1806.

The second structure was a small
church begun about 1742 and completed
in 1761. On July 11, 1779, it was
destroyed by fire at the command of
General Tryon who, at the same time,
ordered the burning of the town of
Norwalk.

Following the burning of the church
in the Revolution, a temporary church
was built in 1780, followed by the
erection of the third church in 1785 on
the foundation of the former building.
This church was pewed and furnished
in 1786, and was consecrated by the
first Anglican bishop in America,
Samuel Seabury, on July 15 of the
same year. Heretofore, there had been
no bishops in the American Anglican
church.