St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley

Saint Peter's Church in the Great Valley is one of the oldest Episcopal congregations in Pennsylvania, founded in seventeen oh four as a missionary parish of the Church of England. The current stone building was erected in seventeen forty-four. During the Revolutionary War, its location in the rolling farmland west of Philadelphia made it strategically important to both sides.

British and American armies used the church as a hospital during the Philadelphia Campaign of seventeen seventy-seven, and the churchyard holds a common grave of soldiers killed at the Battle of Paoli. The church was carefully restored in nineteen forty-four to match its original colonial appearance. It remains an active parish today, its old stone walls carrying more than three centuries of prayers and, for a few terrible weeks in the autumn of seventeen seventy-seven, the weight of a wounded nation.