Calvary Episcopal Church, which is a Gothic Revival-style stone building on Church Street in the Borough of Stonington, is not large, but is connected to a huge name in ecclesiastical architecture: Richard Upjohn, who also designed Trinity Church in Manhattan. His son, Richard M. Upjohn, was the architect of the Connecticut State Capitol Building in Hartford. The Calvary Episcopal parish was established in 1849 and the church was consecrated in 1849. The church faces west, with its side along Church Street, and directly across from it is a board-and-batten chapel, also designed by Upjohn, that was built as a Sunday School room in 1859. It was moved to its current location in 1892 and faces east. A three-sided enclosure is formed because a rectory, that is set back from the other two buildings and faces north, was erected where the chapel had stood.
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