[5] Founded in 1746 as Augusta Parish, Trinity is the oldest church in Staunton and one of the first Episcopal congregations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

English architect James Wood Johns designed the present church, the third on the site, which was built between 1852 and 1855 in the Early Gothic Revival style.

Subsequent additions and renovations have significantly altered the original appearance of the simple brick building.

[9] One of the great artistic treasures in historic Staunton is the magnificent array of stained-glass windows in Trinity Church.

The oldest windows in the church, which date from the 1850s, consist of non-figurative glass cut into diamond-shaped pieces.

The borders, on the other hand, consist of brilliant clear glass in deep colors --- sapphire blue, emerald green, topaz yellow---overlaid with a painted black scroll pattern and joined by clear red panes with painted rosette designs in the corners.

This tall lancet window, which dates from the mid-1870s, features eight circular medallions set against red fields with deep blue borders.

As with the pressed glass of the mid-nineteenth century, these new opalescent windows also represented a purely American development.

Trinity Church owns thirteen opalescent windows, one by the prestigious studio of J&R Lamb (The Nativity, c.1905) and a dozen by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Dating 1898 to 1936, these windows offer a rare variety of subjects and show the development of Tiffany's style.

The array of Tiffany Windows offers a mini-retrospective of his career within the overall retrospective of American stained glass at Trinity Church.

These windows, fabricated of small pieces of mouth-blown glass, included designs consisting of both figures and symbols.

In 1948, a new donor turned to Wippell Studios of England, a decision that not only reflected the embracing of the English origins of the denomination but also it established the pattern for the rest of the church window decoration.

AJ is particularly interested in “Growing community, crossing borders, building bridges, and connecting people to the love of God in Jesús Christ is the source of my greatest joy and the best way I know to unleash the power of God’s love to heal the world.” The church has one deacon: the Rev.