Christ Episcopal Church (Winchester, Virginia)
| Christ Episcopal Church, Winchester | |
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| Location |
140 W. Boscawen St |
| Country | USA |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Churchmanship | Broad church |
| Website | http://www.christchurchwinchester.org |
| History | |
| Founded | 1738 |
| Dedication | Christ |
| Consecrated | 1829 |
| Associated people | Lord Fairfax, Alexander Balmain, William Meade, Frederick W.M. Holliday |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Winchester Historic District contributing property |
| Designated | pre-1980 |
| Architect(s) | Robert Mills |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic |
| Completed | 1828 |
| Construction cost | $5,300 |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 65 |
| Width | 45 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Frederick |
| Diocese | Episcopal Diocese of Virginia |
| Clergy | |
| Priest in charge | Webster S. Gibson |
140 W. Boscawen St
(at Washington St)
Christ Church (Winchester, Virginia), or Christ Episcopal Church, founded in 1738 (with its first vestry elected in 1742), is the seat of Frederick Parish, Diocese of Virginia, which once covered half of the Shenandoah valley and western Virginia, including what became West Virginia. The current church building, the historic parish's third, was designed by Robert Mills (who also designed the Washington Monument and Monumental Church in Richmond, Virginia), completed in 1828, and is the oldest church building in continuous use for religious purposes in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. It is a contributing building in the local Historic District which predates the National Register of Historic Places, and which has been expanded three times since 1980.
The early organizational history of Christ Church differs significantly from that of the Episcopal Church in Frederick, Maryland, the nearby and similar gateway parish during colonial era settlement in Maryland, although the two churches had similar experiences of expansion and during the American Civil War, and remain prominent both architecturally and socially in their historic towns. Christ Church is now one of five Anglican churches in the historic Virginia gateway city. The other churches are: historic St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (founded in 1867, one of the first AME churches and also a contributing building to the historic district), St. Paul's on the Hill (which began as a mission of this church at the city's outskirts in 1966 and became an independent parish in 1996), St. Michael Anglican Church (founded by a British movement and using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer) and Winchester Anglican Church (founded as a mission of the Anglican Church of North America circa 2010) .
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