Christ Church or Historic Christ Church of Lancaster County, Virginia is an historic Episcopal church. Christ Church is notable for its unique Georgian design. The church is also the only colonial Virginia church which still has its original high-backed pews and one of two which has maintained its original three-tiered pulpit.
The first church erected at the site was a wooden building, the construction of which was funded by powerful landowner Jo...
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Christ Church or Historic Christ Church of Lancaster County, Virginia is an historic Episcopal church. Christ Church is notable for its unique Georgian design. The church is also the only colonial Virginia church which still has its original high-backed pews and one of two which has maintained its original three-tiered pulpit.
The first church erected at the site was a wooden building, the construction of which was funded by powerful landowner John Carter in 1670. Carter died before the construction was completed, but was buried on the church grounds alongside four of his five wives. John Carter’s son Robert, a wealthy vestryman and planter, decided that the parish deserved a more substantial place of worship and, in 1730, funded and supervised the construction of a brick building on the approximate foundations of the old wooden church. The unknown architect endowed the structure with many of the hallmarks of the Georgian style, including a formal, symmetrical layout, pedimented...
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