[2] First, the perpetuation of this church has provided a record of the religious life of its founders and the generations who followed beginning in 1733.

Secondly, St. Paul's illustrates the evolution of a small, rural, colonial church into an American-style cruciform structure.

Third, St. Paul's also demonstrates the part that agriculture, particularly of tobacco, played in the 18th century history of the Church of England in Maryland.

The building is a brick structure laid up in Flemish bond with a pattern of glazed headers where the brickwork has not been altered.

The plan is a Latin cross, with a nave two bays long and transept arms one bay long; the present apse is an alteration.