Southwark Parish Churches

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Southwark Parish was established in 1647. To the northeast stood the second Southwark church built by 1673 and abandoned shortly after the American Revolution. To the east, near Bacon's Castle, Southwark Parish vestry completed the Lower Southwark Church in 1754. It too fell into disuse after the American Revolution and the disestablishment of the Anglican Church, but other denominations occasionally held services there. Episcopalians settled a mission at the church in 1847, but were forced by the other groups using the building to erect their own church nearby. Fire gutted the building in 1868, but some brick ruins remain.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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Sources Consulted Include: John Pickett Cargill, “The Reverend John Cargill of Colonial Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 70 (1962): 420-433; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 517, 519; George Carrington Mason, Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1945), 33-42; Old Brick Church (Lower Southwark Church), National Register Archives File (90-34), VDHR; Second Southwark Church Archaeological Site (44SY65), National Register of Historic Places File (90-69), VDHR; Dell Upton, Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986).