page_title: St. Peter's Church (Talleysville, Virginia)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: St. Peter's Church (Talleysville, Virginia) / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Peter's Church, State Route 642, Tunstall vicinity (New Kent County, Virginia) This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 69000263 More images Object location37°&#160;32′&#160;25″&#160;N, 77°&#160;03′&#160;24″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: St. Peter's Church is a historic Episcopal church near Talleysville, Virginia, United States. Built in 1703, the church was designated as "The First Church of the First First-Lady" by the Virginia General Assembly in 1960 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on March 2, 2012, as an exceptionally well-preserved colonial-era church.
context_section_description: Constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond, St. Peter's measures 64 feet 4 inches (19.61 m) by 28 feet 4.5 inches (8.649 m) and is one story high. The gable roof has curvilinear gable ends; segmental arches appear over the windows of the church and the open arches of the tower which was added in the mid-eighteenth century replacing an earlier wooden belfry. The two-story brick tower is of Flemish bond with some glazing and has a pyramidal roof. The top of the tower is also decorated by four original stuccoed brick urns. A wing was added sometime before the Revolution but was removed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
  The original south doorway and several windows had been bricked up but have been restored as have the curvilinear gable ends for which evidence was found in the fabric of the building during the 1940s and again during the restoration work of 1951-52. Much of the interior and exterior has been restored or replaced in what is thought to be its original condition.
caption: HABS photograph of the church, date unknown
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image Software": "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6001.18000", "Image DateTime": "2010:12:17 07:38:12", "Image ExifOffset": "2202", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4420", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2278", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "6DD7D0688CD449638541074BC698FE08", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}