The development of the Episcopal Church in this part of Connecticut began with
the conversion of the Reverend Solomon Palmer, the pastor of the Congregational
Church in Cornwall. He became an Episcopalian, and founded a church in 1760 as a  mission of the Church of England. St. Andrews's first church was built in 1765
in New Preston.  A second church, located adjacent to the Northville
cemetery,was used from 1793 until the present church building in Marble Dale was
completed in 1822.  The 1822 church is  one of the earliest Gothic
Revival structures in the New England, predating the stylistic trend by some 20
years. 

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All materials used were local products: chestnut timbers from Aspetuck sawmills;
marble from Marble Dale's quarries cut in a nearby Aspetuck stone mill,
brick from a nearby kiln.
The initial building has been added with time.
Nathaniel Wheaton, grandson of Joseph Wheaton, the
first settler of Marble  Dale and founding member of St. Andrew's, was ordained and became the
first president of Trinity College. He retired to Marble Dale where he  purchased and occupied the Rectory
and directed the addition of the church's  transept and chancel in the 1850S.  The original Nave
windows, parts of which were saved, were replaced with stained glass windows made by Tiffany in the
1880's. More recently the present parish hall was added in 1963,
replacing the Grange building which had been relocated adjacent to the church
but which shortly thereafter in 1962 was destroyed by a fire. The Parlor
was  added in 1974.  
In the 1990's the church was threatened with
possible demolition due to structural problems, but the
dedication of the  parishioner’s and broad community support permitted the resolution of these
problems and a complete  restoration of the church was carried out in  1994 and 1995.
St. Andrew's Church is the second oldest church building in
the Town of Washington and it is listed in the National Register of  Historical Buildings.