Walking Through History Into The Future With Christ

The History Of Bruton Parish

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A brief history of Bruton Parish Church.


A video introduction to Bruton's history, from the Bruton Parish Heritage Center.


Documentation on Bruton’s designation as a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places.


Historical resources in the Hennage Library.

 

A wonderful series of short videos featuring parishioner Anne Conkling presenting various aspects of Bruton Parish's history as part of the PBS LearningMedia program.

 

A tour of the church's interior with Anne Conkling (23 minutes).

 

A tour of the churchyard with Anne Conkling (1 hour 6 minutes).

 

Bruton Parish's special mission as a public church, with Fr. Epperson.

 

A podcast with Carl Lounsbury discussing the architectural history of Bruton Parish Church (15 minutes).

 

A Colonial Williamsburg Foundation report on the architectural history and restoration of the church.


A report on an archaeological study of the northwest corner of Bruton Parish's first brick church.


A Wikipedia article on religion in early Virginia.

 

An article from Encyclopedia Virginia on the Church of England in Virginia.

 

"Anglican Virginia, The Established Church of the Old Dominion 1607-1786," by Arthur Pierce Middleton (1854), a Colonial Williamsburg Research Report.

 

Websites of the colonial era churches still found in Virginia.

 

Information on James Blair (1656-1743), a central figure in Bruton's history.

 

Thomas Dawson (1715-1760) served as Bruton's rector from 1743 to 1760.

 

John Bracken (1747-1818), rector of Bruton Parish Church from 1773-1818.

 

Liston to a minuet composed by Peter Pelham, organist at Bruton Parish from 1755-18.

 

An article on the workhouse, or poorhouse, maintained by the Bruton Parish vestry in the eighteenth century.

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