St. Paul's Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)

[1]: 2 Dutch soldiers, under the command of Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, arrived in a squadron of ships in 1655, and seized the Swedish colony.

In 1704, Reverend Henry Nichols was sent by The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts as a missionary to work in all three churches.

Israel Acrelius, the noted Swedish Lutheran missionary and priest was a church minister at St. Paul's in 1756.

[2]: 340 In the west end of the Old St. Paul's Church was a large grey slab of sandstone erected to the memory of James Sandilands,[1]: 182  an early landowner and merchant in Chester, with the following inscription: In 1835, extensive repairs were made to the church with an increase in the number of pews and the addition of a gallery in the west end with a large main entrance underneath.

The new church was built of pointed stone in Gothic style with a spire one hundred and twenty-four feet high.

The English Gothic architecture building is built of granite with doorways and windows of Indiana limestone.

[7] The architect was William Provost, Jr.[8] In 1956, St. Paul's Church received a memorial gift of an Aeolian-Skinner organ.

[7] William Anderson, a Major in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and a U.S Congressman from Pennsylvania is also buried at Old St. Paul's cemetery.