St. John’s Church
Completed in 1728 by builder Henry Cary, Jr., St. John’s Episcopal Church is the fourth building to serve Elizabeth City Parish, the oldest active parish of the Anglican communion in […]
Little England Chapel
The diminutive Little England Chapel is a monument to the role of African Americans in working to achieve a better quality of life and a stronger sense of community through […]
Ware Parish Church
The large scale of the finely crafted colonial Ware Parish Church indicates the importance of its parish, which served many of Gloucester County’s leading families. The construction date is unknown; […]
Abingdon Church
Abingdon Parish was formed in 1655 to minister to the residents of lower Gloucester County. The present Abingdon Church, the parish’s second, was built ca. 1755 and is one of […]
Abingdon Glebe House
The architecturally engaging Abingdon Glebe House belongs to Virginia’s collection of colonial glebe houses, structures built to serve their parishes either as a rental property or as rectories. The house […]
Hopewell Friends Meeting House
By the second quarter of the 18th century, large numbers of Pennsylvania Quakers began moving into unsettled lands of Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley and founding new communities. The […]
Bremo Slave Chapel
This simple Gothic Revival structure was constructed in 1835 as a chapel for the enslaved African Americans at Bremo, the Fluvanna County plantation of John Hartwell Cocke. It is the […]
Floyd Presbyterian Church
The architectural highlight of the county-seat community of Floyd, the simple Greek Revival Floyd Presbyterian Church is a product of the 1940s Second Great Awakening which spread Presbyterianism into southern […]
Upperville Historic District
Surrounded by grand estates and scenic farmland, Upperville is a principal geographic reference point for Virginia’s renowned hunt country. This linear village in Fauquier County, on the boundary with Loudoun […]
Falls Church
Lending its name to the surrounding city of Falls Church, this colonial house of worship was preceded by a 1733 wooden church. Determined unfit to repair thirty years later, church […]
