Episcopalians in Uniontown and Marengo County united in May 1844 to form Union Parish, which was admitted to the Diocese of Alabama on May 2, 1845. After this site was donated in 1847, women of the congregation worked to raise funds for the first church, and although the building remained incomplete for many years, services were first held here in January 1848 for black and white communicants. In 1853 Union Parish divided, and the Marengo County parishioners formed St. Michael’s Parish in Faunsdale. In 1863 Church of the Holy Cross was consecrated by Bishop R.H. Wilmer. In 1900 the frame building was replaced by a brick church through the generosity of Mrs. Maria Price Davidson as a memorial to her late husband, Alexander C. Davidson. Designed by architect Edwin H. Oliver of New Orleans and reputedly inspired by a 10th-century chapel in Amiens, France, the church is regarded as a rare example in the Deep South of the Arts and Crafts style in religious architecture. It follows a cruciform plan with a bellcote at the juncture of the cross gables, has lateral walls reinforced by small buttresses, and features shed and gable dormers along the roof line. Stained glass windows memorialize prominent parish families, and the triple-arched chancel window above the altar is a Tiffany window designed by Selma artist Clara Weaver Parrish.