History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Upon the subject of this ancient edifice one of the descendants of those who built and worshiped in it, has the following feeling remarks:
" The Second French Protestant Church edifice in New Rochelle was erected in 1710-11. It was situated a little to the eastward of the former church, on Huguenot Street (called in Queen Anne's charter The High Street), and just in front of the residence of the late Doctor Peter Moulton. Its ground dimensions were thirty by forty feet. The roof was in the form of a square pyramid. The body of the structure was
of rough, unhewn stone, and pierced by arched windows. The entrance, which was on the south side, was also an arched door-way. It has been conjectured that its external sha])e was modeled after the famous Huguenot Temple of La Rochelle, in France. The interior arrangements were equally primitive and unadorned, -- plain, unpainted, uncushioned, high-backed pews ! An elevated box pulpit, built against the face of the wall opposite to the doorway. The desk was surrounded by a plain railing, which formed the chancel or altar, and furnished with a small communion table made of wood of the wild cherry (which survived the old church for many years and which I have seen). From its peculiar shape, this church was popularly known and is still remembered by some of our oldest inhabitants as ' The Old Stone Jug.' Alas, that this venerable relic of antiquity should now have to be numbered among the things that were! The changes incident to the lapse of years, and the vandalism of progress, or rather, shall I say, the progress of vandalism ? have so completely annihilated every vestige of the ancient structure, that even its exact situation, ilka that of its predecessor, cannot be definitely determined, but is more or less a matter of conjecture.