Trinity Episcopal Church is located in

Cheneyville, Louisiana Cheneyville is a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. History The town was named for settler William Cheney. Chen ...

Description and history

The church is located in

Rapides Parish Rapides Parish () () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 130,023. The parish seat and largest city is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. ''Rapides'' is th ...

on the east bank of

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Boeuf in a semi–rural setting. The brick building is a five

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

basilica. The church is one of twelve examples of late 19th century

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buildings that remain in Louisiana. It was added to the

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on October 16, 1980.

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* * Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Gothic Revival church buildings in Louisiana Churches completed in 1860 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Rapides Parish, Louisiana National Register of Historic Places in Rapides Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-Anglican-church-stub