While Bishop Alexander Gregg held the first Episcopal church service on record in Fort Worth in 1860,[1] no parish was established until 1875.

[1] The church retired its debt in 1939[1] and built a parish house, designed by Preston M. Geren Jr., a St. Andrew's parishioner and vestryman, in 1949.

[5] St. Andrew's itself became a center for activity in those resisting liberal theology and practice in the Episcopal Church, including same-sex blessings and the ordination of gay men and women.

[6] In September 1997, St. Andrew's rector Jeffrey N. Steenson—a future bishop of the Rio Grande who later became the first ordinary of the Chair of St. Peter—joined a group of 26 conservative or traditionalist Episcopal priests in signing what became called the "First Promise" statement.

[7][8] The statement declared the authority of the Episcopal Church and its General Convention to be "fundamentally impaired" because they no longer upheld the "truth of the gospel.

[12] St. Andrew's Gothic Revival building has been described as "traditional ecclesiastical design of high quality"[13] with "an air reminiscent of an English medieval parish church.