page_title: Trinity Church, Princeton
section_title: Nineteenth Century
hierarchical_section_title: Trinity Church, Princeton / History / Nineteenth Century
caption_attribution_description: English: Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, before 1914. The church was built in 1868, and was designed by architect Richard Mitchell Upjohn. In this photograph, the church still has its original tower. The tower was replaced with a taller one during extensive renovations by architect Ralph Adams Cram in 1914-1915.
context_page_description: Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal congregation located at 33 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey. It is the largest Episcopal church in New Jersey.
context_section_description: In 1870 the original structure gave way to a larger, more assertively Episcopalian building designed in the Gothic Revival style by Richard Upjohn and his son. This remained until the first decade of the last century, when architect Ralph Adams Cram doubled the nave in length. In 1914, Cram was hired again to create a small chapel in the north transept (the Lady Chapel), a larger French Gothic chancel, and a significantly heightened tower accommodating a small carillon of ten Meneely bells.  With some interior alterations, this is today's church building.  A stone over the chancel door is from the 13th century St. Oswald's Church near Malpas, the original Stockton family home.
  In 1850 the church built a gothic schoolhouse (now attached to the parish house and serving as offices) to serve as a Sunday School for parish children (itself an innovation), and at other times as a school for African-American children, whom the local schools did not serve. In the second half of the 19th century, Trinity founded several nearby missions, of which two survive independently.
  Starting in 1879, Trinity, like many Episcopal parishes, participated in the Choral Revival in the Anglican church, with its emphasis on vested choirs of men and boys trained by professional church musicians, and singing quality church music. Thus began its choir program, long one of the finest in the nation. This rigorous program, now coeducational, has thrived under a succession of gifted leaders, including notable Anglican musicians John Bertalot and Tom Whittemore.
caption: Trinity Church with its original tower and shorter nave before the renovations in 1914
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