Trinity Episcopal Church

Trinity Church, designed by William Henry Chase and finished in 1860, is a five-bay brick basilica in the Gothic Revival style, counted among about a dozen such buildings of its age that survive in Louisiana. It stands on the east bank of Bayou Boeuf in plantation country, on about two acres. The building included a separate gallery for enslaved people, a physical record of how slavery shaped even Sunday worship. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1980, and the Jefferson Highway once ran through Cheneyville nearby.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 13 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 15 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 15 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 22 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Rays Ferry 1816 — 6.3 mi
• Bunkie Depot Museum — 7.8 mi
• Bunkie Post Office — 7.8 mi
• Town of Lecompte — 7.9 mi