Click here here to go to our Tercentenary Events page. The church was designed by Henry Augustus Sims in the High Victorian Gothic style, which was popular in the United States after the Civil War. This style combines French and English medieval Gothic cathedral motifs with more massive details, flamboyant decoration, and mixed use of materials. In 1900, a tower designed by Frank Furness was erected. The interior of the church displays sand-toned brick and columns consisting of six types of marble.
Mouldings are of terra cotta and stone.
No plaster was used anywhere within the original building, a matter of some architectural significance toward the end of the 19th century. Each window has at its center a medallion in which a symbol represents one aspect of the life and reign of Christ. Wailles also did the Alice Niles Miller window which is situated second from the front on the east aisle. In the west transept, there are seven smaller windows by Tiffany called the prophet windows. Also on the west side of the nave, the second window from the rear depicts scenes from three of the parables of the Gospels, as shown at the top of this page.