Evening at Bruton Parish Church
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Evening at Bruton Parish Church
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Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Evening at the Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Bruton Parish Church is the oldest building in Colonial Williamsburg. The church was constructed from 1711 to 1715, with the tower being added in 1769. Considered a simple 18th century church, its fundamental virtue is proportion. It has a beautiful mixture of gothic and renaissance features. The church was named after the town of Bruton, in the English county of Somerset. Bruton was the ancestral home of several of Colonial Virginia's most prominent families.
Bruton Parish Church made it through the Revolutionary War unharmed, only to fall into disrepair later in the century. The pews were cut down. Much of the old woodwork was sold. It served as a hospital during the Civil War. Around 1886, some attempt at repairs and alterations was made, but their extent is unknown. In 1902 when Rev. William A.R. Goodwin was invited to be rector of Bruton Parish, he made it a condition of his acceptance that he be allowed to restore the church. In 1938-1942, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. completed the church's partial restoration to its present late-eighteenth-century appearance.
It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as a well-preserved early example of colonial religious architecture.
Copyright 2020 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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