St. Paul's Church (Trinity)

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Among the older established communities of Newfoundland, Trinity had its first Anglican Church in 1730. A second church was constructed in 1820. The present church -- the most striking wooden Anglican Church in Newfoundland -- was begun in 1892 and finished two years later. Its internal framework, including an aisle arcade of pointed arches, can be found in a number of outport Anglican Churches of the same period and may be the work of one architect. Unlike many of those other churches St. Paul's interior has never been painted. Its exterior, with its offset tower, constructivist detail in the clapboard and an entry which is merely a frame, but a very finely worked frame, is a most impressive sight from any vantage point in or off Trinity. It was clearly the work of a town where wealth and a sense of style combined. And one becomes immediately aware of this on entering the porch where a window has been erected by the carpenters and builders -- men clearly proud of what they had wrought.

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