The front facade features a pedimented portico with four fluted Corinthian order columns.

The parish was established as a mission of the St. Mary Star of the Sea Church at Old Point Comfort in 1881.

St. Alphonsus, an African American parish established in 1944, was merged with St. Vincent de Paul in 1970.

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