. Historic Virginia homes and churches . o andNoniini, also named for the river, or creek, near which itstands. Nomini was destroyed by fire some years afterthe Revolution, but was later rebuilt. Yeocomico, cloistered in a grove of ancient oaks, standssomewhat back from a quiet country road. It is a cross-shaped building, rudely, but strongly, constructed of ® A most complete and interesting account of the Lee familywas written by Doctor Edmund Jennings Lee and published as Leeof Virginia. THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 331 Coloziial brick, witli steep, shingled roof and large siinarewindows, fi
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . o andNoniini, also named for the river, or creek, near which itstands. Nomini was destroyed by fire some years afterthe Revolution, but was later rebuilt. Yeocomico, cloistered in a grove of ancient oaks, standssomewhat back from a quiet country road. It is a cross-shaped building, rudely, but strongly, constructed of ® A most complete and interesting account of the Lee familywas written by Doctor Edmund Jennings Lee and published as Leeof Virginia. THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 331 Coloziial brick, witli steep, shingled roof and large siinarewindows, filled with many little panes of glass and pro-tected by heavy wooden ontside shutters. Over the doorappears the date, 1700, in which year the church was , near the porch, stands an old sun-dial with thename Philip Smith and the date 1717 inscribed upon itsface, and down the hill is a clear, sparkling s])ring withan ancient iron dipper, bearing the initials P. C. (PresleyCox) upon its bowl, chained to its brink. A brick wall. -IMdIiELAND COUNTY around the church and its full graveyard completes thepicture and adds to the effect of seclusion and the Revolution, when everything p],nglish wasunpopular in America, the Episcopal Church languished inthis section. Cople Parish was without a rector for overfifty years, and Yeocomico fell into decay. During theWar of 1812 a detachment of United States soldiers, sentto the neighborhood to watch the movements of the Britishfleet on the Potomac, quartered in the church, and lateron in the same year a comjjany of militia camped there. 332 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES These last sliaiiiefully desecrated tlie old sanctuary. TheConmuiniou table was taken into the yard and made toserve as a butchers block, the beautiful niarble font wascarried off and used as a punch-bowl, and the tablets uponwhich the Ten Coniniandnients, the Lords Prayer and theCreed were inscribed were ruthlessly mutilated. ^Vith the regulai- so
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