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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yeocomico Church is an historic church in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The original wooden structure was built in 1655. It was replaced in 1706 by a structure built of locally fired bricks. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The author John Dos Passos is buried in the cemetery of the church. Parish Affiliation Like most early churches in Virginia, Yeocomico Churchs parish membership has changed as the population of Westmoreland County population grew or shifted. A brief outline shows this: It is the only remaining colonial church in Cople Parish and Westmoreland County . Dating This is the fourth oldest complete church in Virginia preceded by Newport Parish in Smithfield 1680,York-Hampton Parish Church (Grace Church) 1697, and St. Peters in New Kent County 1701. The original part of the present building can be assigned a date of 1706 according to a dating brick in the south east wall . The north wing was most likely erected circa 1725 . It is the second church on this site; the earlier building was a wooden structure of oak timbers, sheathed with clapboards. . Curiously, parts of the wooden structure, including a corner post inside the east gable and a portion of a beam were found embedded in the walls. It has been suggested with no real proof that the brick walls were erected around the frame of the earlier wooden one, essentially encasing it. It is far more likely that some wooden elements of the earlier church were re-used in the construction of the present brick edifice . Architecture This is a room church that shows a combination of features from the Virginia Gothic tradition, as in Newport Parish and St. Peters, New Kent County, combined with the emerging Classical style of the Virginia ch... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16970403


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156167748
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 73 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156167744
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Yeocomico Church
  • Width: 229 mm


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