Trinity Episcopal Church

<p>John Beach, a former Newtown Congregational minister, converted to the Anglican Church in 1732, sailing to Scotland for his ordination and returning to become rector of what would become Trinity. A year after his death in 1782, the American Episcopal Church was formally established.</p> <p>Trinity later became the largest parish in the Episcopal diocese and over time the church expanded. In 1870, the present stone church was built.</p> <p>The church offers Sunday classes for children as well as youth programs and adult study groups. Worship is held four times on Sunday morning and less often during the summer.</p> <p>The Trinity Day School is a private, nonprofit preschool that offers two and a half hour morning and afternoon sessions two or three times a week for 3- and 4-year-old children. A head teacher and teacher assistant is in every classroom. Three-year-olds have a class size of about 13 while 4-year-olds have a class size of 15.</p>