Church wanted to build a chapel in Quaker Farms - to avoid the necessity of the long trek over Governors Hill - they had to rely on the support of their neighbors who were not Episcopalians.
    The plan was that the Episcopalian minister would preach some Sundays in Oxford and other Sundays in Quaker Farms, but that the Quaker Farms people would provide all the money for their little chapel.
    The greater part of the money was raised by popular subscription in Quaker Farms. As the Episcopalians made up only a small portion of the populace in Quaker Farms, there were many contributions from members of other denominations. The only families listed in 1795 as Episcopalians in Quaker Farms were Bassett, Bunnell, Chatfield, Hawkins, Davis, Perry and Wooster.
    The subscription form contained the provision, "the chapel is to be used as a place of worship by every denomination of Christians known and allowed in this state - when it is not occupied by the ministers of the Episcopal Church."
    The late Norman Litchfield, in his History of Christ Church, Quaker Farms, detailed an account of the "raising" of the church.
    Subscriptions for the church were taken up in 1811, with work completed in the church in 1813. The building committee included David Tomlinson, Nathaniel Wooster and Wells Judson.
    The church has been considered by some to be one of the best examples of early Connecticut churches. Mr. J. Frederick Kelly called the church one of the six most interesting in Connecticut.
    It was at this church which Woolsey preached in 1814, and it was later in this same year that the Rev. Aaron Humphrey was hired by the Quaker Farms Episcopal Society to serve as their minister, while also serving in the Center church. Since the Episcopalians hired their own clergy soon after the church was built, it would appear that few other non­Episcopalian clergymen, other than the Methodist itinerant Elijah Woolsey, used the chapel for non-Episcopal services.