Its congregation plays a major role in the Irvington community, sponsoring several local programs including the village's only day care center.

On the south are properties along the north side of Main Street, a mix of commercial and residential buildings, including the McVickar House, also listed on the Register and currently home to the Irvington Historical Society.

Across the street is a modern residential development; on the west the church property is bounded by the trailway along the route of the Old Croton Aqueduct, a linear National Historic Landmark.

It is an asymmetrical one-story building on a partial basement with granite walls topped by a gabled slate roof.

[1] At the center is a 55-foot-tall (17 m) square crenelated tower with a louvered vent on all four sides between two bluestone courses and flat roof.

Plaster walls and ceilings are complemented by dark wood tongue and groove wainscoting and exposed trusses.

[1] Like the church, the parish hall wing is a one-and-a-half granite structure with Gothic detail and a gabled roof.

[1] The modern office wing that connects the parish hall to the church has vertical wood siding, large casement windows and a flat roof.

Framing the view of the church from Broadway, it is also a granite and limestone structure with a slate roof and wooden Gothic detail.

The two frequently spent evenings on Irving's veranda watching the sun set across the Hudson, and during their conversations came up with the idea to establish a school and chapel on the property.

Irving contributed some of the money while the rest came from descendants of the state's Revolutionary-era notables such as John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and Trinity Church in Manhattan.

McVickar's son William, who had been a missionary to the village and rector of Zion Church in Dobbs Ferry,[5] was appointed the first pastor.

Two of its other commissions of the time, Riverdale Presbyterian Church and the William E. Dodge House, both located in the Bronx and also listed on the Register, share similar stonework, steep roofs and arched windows, but little else, with St.

Jay Gould, whose Lyndhurst estate, another NHL, is located north of Sunnyside, donated the remaining land the following year.

The latter was designed by local architect Albert J. Manning, who also built Irvington's nearby village hall, in the more current Collegiate Gothic style.

[6] While on a hunting trip late in 1906, he was killed in the same train accident that took the life of Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway.

In 1924 the parish hall's basement was equipped with a bowling alley and rifle range,[1] leading to heavy use by the local Boy Scouts and Irvington's police department.

The next addition was the Luke Memorial Chapel on the north side of the church, designed by Delano & Aldrich and built in 1945.

The office and Sunday school wings, the latter connecting the parish hall to the church, completed the current complex in the 1960s.

One occupant matched a photo of one former member of a 19th-century pastor's family to a woman she frequently saw sitting in a rocking chair, knitting.

The summer schedule begins the Sunday after the Patronal Festival of St. Barnabas with one Rite II service of Holy Eucharist at 9AM.