Martin's Brandon Church, also known as Brandon Church and as Martin's Brandon Episcopal Church, is a historic
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located at 18706
James River Drive in
Burrowsville, Virginia
Burrowsville is an unincorporated community in Prince George County, Virginia, United States. It is located on James River Drive. The community takes its name from the Burrow family who settled in the area during colonial period and whose many d ...
. Martin's Brandon Parish was formed in the early 17th century and derives its name from the nearby
Martin's Brandon Plantation patented by
Captain John Martin
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in 1616. The current church was designed by noted Baltimore architect
Niernsee & Neilson and built in 1855 as a replacement for an earlier sanctuary that once stood directly across Route 10 near the site of the Burrowsville School. Several of its beautiful stained glass windows were designed by
Louis Comfort Tiffany
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. A cherished possession of Brandon Church is a silver communion chalice known as the "Communion Cupp" that has been used by Martin's Brandon Parish since the 17th century. The property also includes the contributing church
cemetery
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The church was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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in 1980.
Notable parishioners
* Robert Williams Daniel
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* Robert Williams Daniel Jr.
See also
*Merchant's Hope Church
Merchant's Hope was the name of a plantation and church established in the Virginia Colony in the 17th century. It was also the name of an English sailing ship, ''Merchant's Hope'', which plied the Atlantic bringing emigrants to Virginia in the ea ...
, upper chapel of Martin's Brandon Parish until the mid 19th century.
*Lower Brandon Plantation
Lower Brandon Plantation (or simply Brandon or Brandon Plantation and initially known as Martin's Brandon) is located on the south shore of the James River in present-day Prince George County, Virginia.
The plantation is an active farm and was ...
, also known as Martin's Brandon or as Brandon
*Upper Brandon Plantation
Upper Brandon Plantation is an historic plantation in Prince George County, Virginia on the James River.
History
Upper Brandon plantation was part of a 1616 original land patent of 5,000 acres granted to Captain John Martin, one of the founders ...
References
External links
Martin's Brandon Episcopal Church Facebook account
1613 establishments in Virginia
Churches completed in 1855
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Episcopal churches in Virginia
Churches in Prince George County, Virginia
Religious organizations established in the 1610s
Renaissance Revival architecture in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Prince George County, Virginia
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