St. Paul's Church (Chester, PA)

St. Paul's Church is an Episcopal Church founded in 1702 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The church is a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. It is located at 301 East 9th Street and is an active worship center.

In 1700, Reverend Evan Evans was sent to the province of Pennsylvania by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He is frequently mentioned in the society records as traveling to Chester, Chichester, Concord and Radnor.

St. Paul's Church was founded in 1702 on land first donated to the Swedish Church early in the settlement of Chester, Pennsylvania. The location of the first St. Paul's church was south of Third Street, east of Market Square on land that was formerly a burial ground for the colonists of New Sweden. The original church was made of stone, twenty-five feet high with a wooden steeple containing the bell.

The former Quaker Anglican missionary George Keith is known to have preached at St. Paul's twice in 1702.

The St. Paul's Church parish included St. Martin's Church in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania and St. John's Church in Concord. 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.

...
Wikipedia