St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. Located directly across the street from the Virginia State Capitol, the church has long been a popular house of worship for political figures, including General Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
memorial to wife of Jefferson Davis
Other famous people associated with the church are Rev. Dr. Charles Minnigerode who led the church during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. The Right. Rev. John Shelby Spong, (now retired as bishop of the Diocese of Newark), began to attract national attention while rector of St. Paul’s (1969-1976).
memorial to children of Jefferson Davis
St. Paul's was built in 1845 by members of the Monumental Church.
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St Peter's Catholic Church
Monumental Church
Monumental Church
Monumental Church is an Episcopal
Church that stands at 1224 E. Broad Street between N. 12th and College Streets
in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of America's earliest and most distinctive
Greek Revival churches and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, is a National Historic Landmark and is located in the Court End historic
district.
The building consists of two parts, a crypt and a church. The crypt is located
beneath the sanctuary and contains the remains of those claimed by the Richmond
Theatre fire of 1811. The church is an octagonal construction of brick and Aquia
sandstone with a stucco coat.
Monumental Church was built between 1812 and 1814 to commemorate the 72 people
who died on the site in the December 26, 1811 Richmond Theatre fire. It was
commissioned by Chief Justice John Marshall and designed by architect Robert
Mills, the first American-born architect, the only pupil of Thomas Jefferson and
the architect of the Washington Monument and White House of the Confederacy.
Mills "had a reputation for being particularly concerned with fireproofing,"
probably owing to his work on Monumental, and later in his career designed
Charleston's Fireproof Building as a testament to that fact.
The site of Monumental Church was known initially as the first Academy of Fine
Arts and Sciences in America, or "The Theatre Square." Chevalier Quesnay de
Beaurepaire, a French officer in the Revolutionary army, had developed the idea
for the academy but the plan was abandoned due to the war. In 1786 on this site
Richmond's first theatre was built, which had the appearance of a "barn-like
building." The Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788 was held in this building
beginning on June 3rd for three weeks "after first convening in the temporary
capitol at Cary and fourteenth streets." Among the many individuals in
attendance were James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Edmund Pendleton,
George Wythe, George Nicholas, Edmund Randolph, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee
and Patrick Henry. This building was destroyed by fire in 1802 and the Richmond
Theatre would replace it.
Monumental Church established the first Sunday School program in Richmond on
Nov. 20, 1817. Famous parishioners included Chief Justice John Marshall whose
family occupied pew No. 23, Edgar Allan Poe, whose foster parents the Allans
were members and occupied pew No. 80, the Marquis de Lafayette when he visited
Richmond in 1824, William Mayo of Powhatan and the Chamberlayne family.
Three Richmond congregations were formed from Monumental, including: St. James's
in 1831, St. Paul's in 1845 and All Saints in 1888.
Deconsecrated in 1965, it was given by the Medical College of Virginia to the
Historic Richmond Foundation, an affiliate of the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
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