Southwark Parish Churches

Southwark Parish Churches is a Virginia historical marker in Surry County, dedicated 2005.

Rte. 10, at intersection with Rte. 618

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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.

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1630 · Nova Virginia Tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1671 · Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula. (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)

Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering the location of Southwark Parish Churches, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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