Architecture
This is a room church that shows a combination of features from the Virginia Gothic tradition, as in Newport Parish and St. Peter’s, New Kent County, combined with the emerging Classical style of the Virginia church of the eighteenth century. Its unique features are:
- The presence of a southwest doorway with an enclosing porch
- The first example of kicked eaves in a colonial church
- The establishment of a baroque juxtaposition of “masses and complex shapes”
- Reduction of exterior decoration to understated elements
- Corbelling of the corners of the church and porch
- A belt course of glazed brick
- Diapering on the porch façade
- A series of brick arches filled with plaster on the porch façade
- Corbels on the gables
- A wicket door
- Brick ornaments of initial plaques, emblem plaques, and a millstone inserted in the chancel upper window.
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