. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ne step from the stone-paved aisles is furnished now with two modern stands orlecterns, for the service and sermon, but back against thewall there still stands the old reading desk and pulpit aboveit. . The pews are the same old box stalls with benchesof uncompromising rigidity, and furnished with clangingdoors which announce the retirement of the occupants; butthey have been cut down to nearly half of their formerheight. Formerly pews and pulpit were so high that bothminister and congregation could enjoy deep seclusion. . .To complete the description o
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ne step from the stone-paved aisles is furnished now with two modern stands orlecterns, for the service and sermon, but back against thewall there still stands the old reading desk and pulpit aboveit. . The pews are the same old box stalls with benchesof uncompromising rigidity, and furnished with clangingdoors which announce the retirement of the occupants; butthey have been cut down to nearly half of their formerheight. Formerly pews and pulpit were so high that bothminister and congregation could enjoy deep seclusion. . .To complete the description of the venerable building,there is only to be added that its walls are covered by themost luxuriant mantle of English ivy. GAYMONT Gaymont was the beautiful home of John H. Bernard,who was a State Senator, and who married, in 1816, JaneGay Robertson. The house, which is noted for its hand- TH?: RAPPAIIAXXOCK AM) POTOMAC -97 sonic iiitcrii)r. rcfcivcd its luiiiit. as a ci)iiij)liiiitiit to liiswife. It is still owned hv the THK , AT (.AVMIINT OUMESBV Ormesby, an estate not far from Gnineys Depot onthe Ricliinond. Frederiekshury and Potomac Railroad, wasonce the property of Anthony Thornton, of StaffordCounty, who married Winifred, daughter of Colonel PeterPresley, of Xorthumherland House, XortliumberlandCounty, and died in 17o7. The Ormesby homestead is oneof those interesting-looking, rambling frame houses whichin tlie old Virginia fasliion grew witli the needs of thefamily that lived in it. It is said that .Vnthony Thornton Ibuilt the oldest part of the house in about , and gavethe plantation to his younger son. Anthony 11, who was inturn succeeded by his son Colonel Anthony Thornton 111,who as county lieutenant of Caroline commanded themilitia of that county at the siege of Yorktown. LaterColonel Thornton sold Ormesby to his l)rother ThomasGriffin Thornton, and removed to Kentucky. Thomas Griffin Thornton was in his day one of the 298 HOMES AND CHU
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