St. Stephen's Church

St. Stephen's Church is a Virginia historical marker in Forest, Bedford (County) County, dedicated 2016.

14616 Forest Road, Forest

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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, about a mile northwest of here, was established by the Rev. Nicholas Hamner Cobbs in 1824. Cobbs, later the first Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, is credited with revitalizing that denomination in western Virginia. The St. Stephen’s congregation erected its first sanctuary ca. 1825 on land that had been part of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest tract. This building was replaced in 1844 with the present brick Greek Revival-style sanctuary on the same site. The church’s cemetery, with grave markers dating to the 1840s, reflects a variety of styles of funerary art.

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1807 · Map Of Virginia (lower center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1819 · Ohio & Indiana (H. S. Tanner, 1819) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1846 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1846) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1823, covering the location of St. Stephen's Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1823, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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St. Stephen's Church

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