1774–1776, attributed to John Ariss. 1974, restoration, Milton L. Grigg. Rixeyville vicinity (8 miles north of Culpeper on VA 229; .3 mile on VA 726)
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(Virginia Department of Historic Resources) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) -
(Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
Standing dramatically alone on its windswept site, Little Fork is a surviving example, rare in the Piedmont, of a nearly intact colonial house of worship. It has been attributed to Ariss because of its similarity to Lamb's Creek Church in King George County. John Voss, a local brickmason, built it and may have had a hand in the design. The church is a long, low structure of Flemish bond brick with its principal entrance in the south wall. The interior is intact and contains box pews and an elaborate carved reredos with a broken pediment and Doric pilasters.