Aurora's Historic Trinity Anglican Church - A Tour of the Outside & the Grounds

Trinity Anglican Church in Aurora. A tour of the exterior (1800's church).
We know a lot about the history of Trinity Anglican Church in Aurora due to "Trinity Aurora a Parish History" by W. John McIntyre.
While some records of the early church were lost due to a fire (the church's very first vestry books and financial records), there is fortunately, still, a large collection of parish records.

Two letters were copied into Trinity's parish register of 1849-97 as a help to our knowledge of the church.

One letter is from John Mosley to Rev S. F. Ramsey, the other from Ramsey to Rev. W.H. Stewart dating December 1860, recounting the parish's first services and building of first church.

Subsequent to 1878, there are complete sets of vestry minute books to this day - as well as many other documents.
A new church building (1884) was built as an improvement on the first (1846). We learn that the budget for the church building was not always there - but a way was usually found. The Mosley family was significant to the history of the church as were many other families. In World War I and II, many young men in the church went off to War. Not all came home.
The stained glass has special meaning and the architecture is indeed - as this tour demonstrates - very elegant. A stained glass depicting Christ as the Good Shepherd was put in place in memory of Reverend Charles Paterson at the time of building in his memory - for he had launched the plans to build the new church.
Marshall B. Aylesworth was the architect - he had also designed St. Paul's in Newmarket. The sum of the building cost was just over $7000.
The church is located at 79 Victoria Street in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.