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St. Mary's Whitechapel

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c. 1669, c. 1741, 1832; later alterations. VA 201 at VA 354 (3 miles south of Lively)

Named for the London suburb that had been home to some of its early communicants, this church may have begun as early as 1669. Originally a rectangular brick box, it was enlarged c. 1741 by the addition of transepts in a Flemish bond with glazed headers. Abandoned after disestablishment, the church fell into ruin. When it was reoccupied in 1832, the original nave and chancel were removed. The bricks were used to enclose the transept, which became the church. The round-headed windows date from the 1740s, but the doorways are from 1832. On the interior, the gallery, supported on Tuscan columns, is from the eighteenth century, but the remainder is post-1832. In the graveyard, a cast iron enclosure (c. 1875) contains a scene of lambs lying under weeping willows.

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Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Richard Guy Wilson et al., "St. Mary's Whitechapel", [, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-PE25.

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Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 340-340.

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