Christ Church is a historic

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located at Saluda,

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. The present building was constructed in the 1720s, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building with a gable roof. It measures 60 feet by 33 feet, 6 inches. Although relatively plain, the church's interior was richly furnished in colonial times. After the Anglican church was disestablished in Virginia following the

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, the church building was abandoned, and it fell into ruin. During this period, all interior furnishings, the roof, and the upper part of the walls were lost. The flemish bond walls of the church, however, remained standing. The parish was revived in 1840, and the church was restored in 1843. A gable-roofed vestibule added, which today bears an inscription bearing the date 1714 (previously thought to be the date of construction and 1843). an
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and

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. The church was listed on the

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in 1972.

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Christ Church, State Route 638, Urbanna, Middlesex County, VA
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