It is an Episcopal congregation founded in 1711, that meets in an architecturally exceptional Georgian brick building that was built in the 1750s.

[5] Aquia Church is located west of Aquia Harbour and north of Stafford, at the northeast corner of United States Route 1 and the end of State Route 610, just east of Interstate 95.

It is a two-story cruciform structure, built out of bricks laid in Flemish bond, with sandstone trim elements.

The building corners are quoined in stone, and the first-floor windows are set in rectangular openings with keystones.

The interior is largely original, and has richly detailed woodwork, including one of the finest known colonial period pedimented altarpieces in the state.