Church of England services were first held on the site in 1696 in a Quaker meeting house of log construction, built about 1684.

The present building was erected in 1711 of red and black brick believed to have been ballast from ships brought from England.

A log meetinghouse was built by teenagers John and Rees Price, who along with their step-mother resettled their from the Welsh Merion Meeting.

Andreas (Andrew) Rudman was also an early preacher, formerly of Old Swedes Church in Philadelphia.Trinity Oxford is in possession of a prayer book send over from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Lands, dated 1705.

Robert Weyman, who served during the 1720s, were paid a stipend to preach in the Welsh Language at Radnor, about 20 miles to the west.

[3] In 1713, Queen Anne presented a silver communion set to the congregation inscribed "Annae Reginae" is still used on special occasions.

Dr. William Smith, 1766–1779 and 1791–1798, who founded, and served as the first Provost of, the College of Philadelphia (afterward the University of Pennsylvania); the Rev.