Bruton Parish Church - First Anglican church built in 1660 -
First rector Reverend Rowland Jones - Named for Bruton,
Somersetshire, England - Many patriots belonged to Bruton Parish
- Used as hospital during two wars - Rev. W.A. R. Goodwin led
20th-century restoration - Church still owned by and serves its
three-centuries-old parish Parish history dates to Middle
Plantation in 1660 Among the men of the Revolution who attended
Bruton Parish Church were Thomas Jefferson, George Washington,
Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe, Patrick Henry, and George
Mason. But the building's history, and that of its churchyard,
goes back further in time. Dating from 1715, the present
structure is the third in a series of Anglican houses of worship
that began in 1660. The first, which may or may not have been at
or near the 18th-century site, was built, probably of wood, in
the Old Fields at Middle Plantation, Williamsburg's name until
the 66-year-old community was incorporated in 1699. Formed from
Middletown and Marston Parishes