Historic Christ Church & Museum will host architectural historian Dr. Carl Lounsbury via Zoom at 10 a.m. February 10 for “Church Building in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.”
A historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for over three decades and an adjunct associate professor at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Lounsbury will trace early Virginians’ efforts to replicate in the colony the form, plan and fittings of contemporary English practices, said executive director Robert J. Teagle.
Dr. Lounsbury will show how the churches built at Jamestown in 1608, 1617 and in the early 1640s set important precedents for what would follow in Virginia over the next century and a half and how these contrasted with the forms colonists adopted in Anglican churches in Maryland, North Carolina and New England.
Richly illustrated and incorporating findings from recent archaeological investigations at Jamestown, Dr. Lounsbury’s presentation will showcase the history and evolution of one of colonial Virginia’s most important building forms.
To register, email Foundation for Historic Christ Church office manager Nat McMaster, nmcmaster@christchurch1735.org. Those who register will receive a Zoom invitation the week before Dr. Lounsbury’s presentation. There is no cost to register.
