Glebe House of Southwark Parish

Glebe House of Southwark Parish is a Virginia historical marker in Surry County, dedicated 2001.

Rte. 10, west of intersection with Hollybush Road

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Nearby stands the glebe house of the formerly Anglican Southwark Parish that was built soon after 1724. A glebe was a parcel of land owned by a colonial church and farmed to pay the minister's expenses. This glebe house was used as a parish rectory and is one in a rare surviving group in Virginia. The first to live here was the Reverend John Cargill, a leading colonial cleric. The disestablishment of the Anglican church resulted in the property's sale into private ownership in 1802. Exterior chimneys were added and the gable roof was rebuilt as a gambrel. The property was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1975 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Historical maps covering this location

1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1719 · A new map of the English empire in America viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey… (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1919 · Surry, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the…, 1862, covering the location of Glebe House of Southwark Parish, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the…, 1862, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Glebe House of Southwark Parish

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