Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia

Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia

Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 21. Building 01.

Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg

Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg

Recto and verso of official Colonial Williamsburg postcard illustrated with a view of the northeast exterior elevation of Bruton Parish Church. Part of a series of cards produced by the Albertype Company to promote Williamsburg as a tourist destination in the 1930s, it shows the church before final restoration work occured in 1939. The exterior shutters, louvered window grills on the church tower, and ivy growing up the walls were all removed in the late 1930s in an effort to bring the exterior back to its 18th-century form.

The caption reads: "The present church was erected in 1710-1715 to replace an earlier church. In its aisles and graveyard are the graves of two colonial governors, three secretaries of state, and many other prominent persons of the colonial period."

Albertype Co.

ca. 1930s

Postcard Collection

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Image

AVPC-427-R

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Postcard

3.5 x 5.5 inches