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Bruton Parish Church is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.It was established in 1674 by the consolidation of two previous parishes in the Virginia Colony, and remains an active Episcopal parish.
Bruton Parish Poorhouse Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Williamsburg, York County, Virginia. It is the site of a poorhouse established by Bruton Parish Church after a 1755 act of the assembly empowering all the colony's parishes to erect poorhouses.
The Church of St Mary in Bruton, Somerset, England was largely built in the 14th century. Like many Somerset churches, it has a very fine tower; less usually it has a second one as well. [2] Simon Jenkins has called Bruton's tower "Somerset architecture at its most powerful." [3] It has been designated a Grade I listed building. [4] [5]
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Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia. Original church built 1683 on land donated by Colonel John Page. The shaft commemorating Col. Page is at right of the church door in this photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston. John Page was born around 1627, likely in East Bedfont, Middlesex, the parish records for which do not survive for that ...
William Archer Rutherfoord "W. A. R." Goodwin (June 18, 1869 – September 7, 1939) was an Episcopal priest, historian, and author. As the rector of Bruton Parish Church, Goodwin began the 20th-century preservation and restoration effort which resulted in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
[1] [3] Ballard was a vestryman of Bruton Parish in Middle Plantation when it built its first brick church in 1682–83. He spent his final years pursuing a lawsuit against Nathaniel Bacon's estate, trying to recover the balance due on the 1675 land sale. [1] [3] Ballard died and was buried at Bruton Parish Church on March 24, 1689. [2] [5]
English: This is a wonderful Somerset church, one of the finest in a county known for its fine churches. Described by the architectural expert Simon Jenkins as "Somerset architecture at its most powerful", the chief feature is its substantial 102 feet high west tower, accompanied uniquely by a smaller and older tower over the north porch.