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Historical Highway MarkersSt. John's Protestant Episcopal ChurchSN-68
Three miles west stood St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church of Cumberland Parish. Bishop William Meade consecrated the building, later known as St. John’s Woodend, in 1832. The Rev. Charles C. Taliaferro was its first minister. The church’s predecessor, Flat Rock Church, had been built by 1760. With its recessed entrance and low-church chancel arrangement, St. John’s reflected the distinctive style of church architecture then popular in Virginia. The congregation dispersed by 1963. The legacy of parish records, communion silver, stained-glass windows, and stewardship of the cemetery passed to the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, in Kenbridge.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Lunenburg County Deed Book 28, p. 450, and 29, p. 250A Landon C. Bell, Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816 Vestry Book (Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1930), 37, 39. Landon C. Bell, The Old Free State: History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia (Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1927), 1:586-589. Mary Borkin, WPA of Virginia Historical Inventory 90, St. John’s Church and Cemetery, 20 Oct. 1936, 1-4. William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1894), 1:482-487. |