This square-towered Episcopal Church at the head of Wall Street is the third one of this site in one of America’s oldest Anglican parishes, founded in 1697. Designed in 1846 by Richard Upjohn, it was among the grandest churches of its time, marking the beginning of the best period of Gothic Revival architecture in America. Richard Morris Hunt’s design for the sculpted brass doors was inspired by Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Doors of Paradise at the Baptistery in Florence.

Restoration has uncovered the original rosy sandstone, long buried beneath layers of city grime. The 86-metre steeple, the tallest structure in New York until the 1860s, still commands respect despite its towering neighbours.

Many prominent early New Yorkers are buried in the graveyard: statesman Alexander Hamilton; steamboat inventor Robert Fulton; and William Bradford, founder of New York’s first newspaper in 1725.