North also followed contemporary architects like Ralph Adams Cram in their desire to extend the Gothic style beyond its medieval models, and made early use of newer building materials like reinforced concrete and cast stone.

Around the same time it faced a scandal surrounding the dismissal of its pastor, and the costs of maintaining an aging building raised doubts as to whether the church could continue using it.

A stone retaining wall with steps in the middle sets off the large lawn facing East Main on the south.

All the Tudor Revival arched doors and stained glass windows have smooth finished limestone and cast stone surrounds.

Above it is the large southern window, with two vents having patinated copper louvers and an empty niche in between at the belfry stage.

It is a two-story Tudor Revival structure with the lower story sided in random ashlar stone and stucco and the upper in half-timber.

[1] Inside, the tower base's high arch makes it a narthex, with a glazed wood screen setting it apart from the nave.

[1] At the north end is a traditional deep square chancel set off from the nave by a stone wall with brass gates.

To the north the education wing has plain walls of painted concrete block; the fellowship hall has a large ceiling on laminated Tudor arched trusses.

On its south end a rolling door is sheltered by a deep projection of the roof supported by wooden posts.

Those English country churches had inspired Richard Upjohn, Frederick Clarke Withers and other Gothic Revival architects of that era.

Contemporary architects like Ralph Adams Cram, Bertram Goodhue and Henry Vaughan were also designing churches from those models, but they believed that the style offered potential that had not been explored when it initially fell out of favor in the 16th century.

Their churches, which emphasized clarity of design and functionality over the Picturesque elements of the earlier Gothic-inspired architects, were called Neo-Gothic.

The inside also seems at first to be strictly following medieval precepts, but the high arch in the lower story of the tower, giving the effect of a continuation of the nave, departs from that model.

North also made use of some new building materials of his time, such as structural reinforced concrete, particularly in the floor, and cast stone in the exterior tracery.

A month later he filed a wrongful termination suit against the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, claiming he had been retaliated against by the bishop for reporting sexual harassment by a visiting gay priest from Massachusetts.

[5] Under new vicar Stephen Metcalfe, who took over in 2010, the church is hoping to raise the money to rehabilitate the aging bell tower.