Grace Episcopal Church is a historic
Episcopal church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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located at 5607 Gordonsville Road in
Keswick,
Albemarle County, Virginia,
United States
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. The
Gothic Revival building was designed by architect
William Strickland in 1847. It is the only known work of Strickland in Virginia. The interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1895.
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"Both the church and the hunt club have a long history in Keswick. The congregation dates back to 1745 as one of the first six churches in the Virginia colony back when the Church of England was the official state-sanctioned religion. The original church was replaced with a new building in 1855 but a fire two decades later left only the tower and walls standing. Those were incorporated into the current church when it was rebuilt at the site north of Cismont on Route 231. The church’s 1,575-pound bell was salvaged and is still in use. In fact, it will ring 10 times at 9:45 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day to announce the 10 a.m. prayer service, calling the congregation, hunters, steeds and dogs together."[McKenzie, Bryan. 2017.]
" The Roanoke Times. November 23, 2017.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
on October 21, 1976.[
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See also
* Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
The Diocese of Virginia is the largest diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing 38 counties in the northern and central parts of the state of Virginia. The diocese was organized in 1785 and is one of the Episco ...
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References
External links
Grace Episcopal Church website
1747 establishments in Virginia
Churches completed in 1847
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Churches in Albemarle County, Virginia
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Episcopal churches in Virginia
Gothic Revival church buildings in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia
1847 establishments in Virginia
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