Bangor was one of the first Church of England congregations in the American colonies. Welsh settlers founded this church. The first church building was log, erected in 1734. The second church was stone, built in 1755. Bangor is the oldest congregation in the Episcopal diocese of Central Pennsylvania.

 Above: Names of donors are inscribed on stones that were part of the first stone church. The stones were re-used in this building during its construction in 1830. Names include 18th-century church founders. Some inscriptions are: Edward and Mary Davies, J. Edwards, Moses Horn, N. Davies, W. Douglas, E. Davies, J. Douglas, Z. Davies, W. Davies, A. Billing, J. Davies, J. Spencer, D. Jenkins, J. Davies Jr., G. Hudson, plus some names as initials.

The stonework is a showcase of traditional masonry.

  “The Triassic beds include brown, red, pink, gray, and greenish sandstone, and conglomerate with white quartz pebbles up to one inch in diameter. In some places these must occur close together for in Churchtown the Caernarvon Academy (1854) contains all of these. Perhaps the material was float or field stone and was not quarried. [This academy was demolished.]
The modern Methodist Episcopal Church in Churchtown [today’s United Methodist Church near this Bangor Episcopal Church] is all one tone brownstone in squared blocks… Perhaps this stone came from the red beds just north of the village.”
Quote: Building Stones of Pennsylvania, Ralph W. Stone, 1932, page 186.

 “Bangor Episcopal Church, Route 23, northwest corner at Water Street, 1830; one and one-half story, three bay brownstone Gothic Revival church; pointed arch double doors; c. 1880 Gothic belfry with fish-scale slate roof; oldest inland Episcopal congregation in United States; graveyard on grounds.”, Our Present Past, page 50, Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.

  “In the northern belt [of Lancaster County] the red Triassic sandstones and the white Precambrian conglomerates and sandstones once furnished building and culvert stone. But today these are rarely used, their place being taken by concrete.”
Quote: Intelligencer Journal, F&M Professor Justin R. Roddy, Oct. 24, 1927, page 5.