A Place of Public Worship

A Place of Public Worship. Christ Church Episcopal, Est. 1841. , On July 20, 1841, John Pulliam, a Vestryman wrote in his diary...... "A warm day, this being the day set aside for the consecration of the church at Spotsylvania Courthouse, about nine o'clock. I started to church in the company of John Holladay, his wife and daughter, and William Holladay, who called a short time later and took Agness in his carriage.", Prior to March of 1839, Lewis Rawlings, who owned the adjacent tavern, erected a small brick building to be used as a place of public worship. The bricks came from a field near Stapleton Crutchfield's old tanyard on the road to Snell. On February 3rd, 1842, he sold the brick building and an acre of land, for the sum of $10 to a group of trustees for a new church called Christ Episcopal Church. The Trustees at the time were leading citizens of the area., The Trustees in 1842 consisted of: , Gabriel Long, Planter and Surveyor , James C. Heart, Planter , William Holladay, Planter , Byrd C. Leavell, Planter and Mill Owner , Thomas W. Anderson, Planter , William P. Goodwin, Planter and Merchant , James R. Pulliam, Doctor and Planter, The church still has nine over nine double sash windows and remnants of the tiebacks for the shutters no longer present., The small brick building was constructed in the Flemish Bond pattern of the late Federal style and had a gabled roof., The original deed reveals that Rawlings wrote the document, as the writing matches his signature., The congregations most valued possession is the 1754 "Mattaponi" pulpit bible., The simple wooden pews inside bring remembrance as well as a place to hear the message., In 1987, the church was enlarged to meet its growing congregation.