The "God's Acre" around it held many a noted man and woman.

Yet, as it is so far from the ground in which we are now concerning ourselves, it seems a bit out of place perhaps.

But one must perforce show the English church's beginnings, soon to find a more solid basis in St.John's Chapel, dear to all New Yorkers even nowadays when we behold it menaced by that unholy juggernaut, the subway.
St.John's was begun in 1803 and completed in 1807.

It was Part of the old King's Farm, originally granted to Trinity by Queen Anne, who appears to have done quite a lot for New York, take it all in all.

It was modelled after St.Martin's-in-the-Fields, in London, and always stood for English traditions and ideals.