St. Georges Church (First building) 1741

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This year is a celebration year for St. Georges as they mark their 300th anniversary. However, the first church constructed in Fredericksburg, Virginia wasnt begun until 1732 (Quenzel pg 9). Specifications called for the church to “…be undepinn’d with brick or stones at least two foot above the highgest part of the surface of the earth whereon they stand eighteen inches thick, to be fourteen foot pitch from the upper part of the sills to the upper part of the plates, each church to have ten windows seven foot by three each…eighteen panes in each window…shingled with good cypress shingles…the roof to be overjettied twelve inches to have ahansom madilion cornice…the doors, windows and cornice to be three time well painted and laid with white lead; all the rest of the outside to be well tarr’d…” (Vestry Minutes, [I, 22-23]). The model represents the church with additional alterations, notably shutters, as it would have looked in 1741.