Christ Church

Christ Church Parish of the Church of England was created in 1666 when two earlier parishes merged. Middlesex County, established in 1669, shared its boundaries. A wooden sanctuary built here ca. 1667 was replaced by a brick church in 1712-1714, and two chapels served distant parts of the parish. Anglican parishes in Virginia, supported by taxes, were responsible for worship, public morality, and care for widows, orphans, the poor, and the sick until the American Revolution led to Disestablishment and the seizure of some church assets. Abandoned early in the 19th century, this church was revived in the 1840s and has since been an active parish of the Episcopal Church.