The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . ior of the church has recently beenrestored to its pristine splendor, and entering its doorsis like taking a step into the past, the high backed pewsare now memorials to former occupants who havingserved their day generation passed from time to eter-nity. Recent gifts to the church are a Bible, and a lecternon which it rests, presented respectively by the King ofEngland and the President of United States. Old Bruton Church was designed Governor Spotts-wood, that man of divers gifts, who never failed the col-onists in affairs of eit
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . ior of the church has recently beenrestored to its pristine splendor, and entering its doorsis like taking a step into the past, the high backed pewsare now memorials to former occupants who havingserved their day generation passed from time to eter-nity. Recent gifts to the church are a Bible, and a lecternon which it rests, presented respectively by the King ofEngland and the President of United States. Old Bruton Church was designed Governor Spotts-wood, that man of divers gifts, who never failed the col-onists in affairs of either church or state. The presentchurch was completed in 1715 and has been in continuoususe longer than any church in America. The parish wasfounded 1632, second church erected 1683. Five Presidents worshipped in Bruton Church, namely. Washiii<iton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and the other familiar ones who answer the roll callof History, and and are also enrolled in these sacred ar-chives are Wvthe, Blair, Beverly, I-/ee, Mason, Carey, the. OLD HUrTON CHURCH. Randolphs, the Pa«es the Harrisons, ^Marshall and PatrickHenry. Bruton is now the only church in America bnilt andpaid for when church and State vv^ere one, it was memory of Bruton in Somerset County, Eno-land. A number of tablets of ancient dates adorn the yv\alls. In the seventeenth century, for burial in the chancel. a charge was made of one thousand pounds of tobacco, orfive pounds sterling, and in the church five hundredpounds of tobacco, or fifty shillings. There are three sil-ver sets of communion service, the oldest was broughtfrom the church at Jamestown and was donated byFrancis Morrison the second, a covered cup and a patten,was given by Lady Gooch, and is called the QueenAnne service, the third bears the royal coat of arms ofGeorge II on chalice, flagon and alms basin. The metal in the old church bell is of great value, andthe tones sent out on the air are of peculiar is
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