Identifier: virginiamagazine10bruc (find matches)
Title: The Virginia magazine of history and biography
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933 Stanard, William Glover, 1859- Virginia Historical Society Virginia Historical Society. Proceedings
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Publisher: Richmond, Virginia Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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l remain as they were, only needing comparativelyslight repairs and refreshing. It is known from Bishop Meades statement derived from the old ves-try book, now lost, from extracts from the same record now in the pos-session of a lady of Norfolk, Va., and from the will of the founder, thatChrist Church was built entirely at the cost of Robert Carter, of Coro-toman, Lancaster county, who was commonly known as King Car-ter, and was completed about 1732. Robert Carters home, Corotoman, was three miles distant from thechurch and is connected with it by a straight road, which was formerlylined all the way by a very high and compact hedge of cedar trees, someof which still remain. His house was situated on the bank of theRappahannock (here almost at its mouth) between the Corotoman riverand Carters creek, and affords one of the most beautiful water views inVirginia. The site is now a cultivated field, and scarcely a vestage re-mains to show that it was once the home of a man of large wealth.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 209 There is in the clerks office at Lancaster Courthouse a map of thegreat Corotoman estate, which contained more than 8,000 acres^ Itbegan at the mouth of the Corotoman river, extended far up its bankand then into the country a considerable distance above Kilmarock, whileon the other side it crossed Carters creek, and appears to have includedthe present site of the town of Irvington. Mr. R. S. Mitchell, of Irvington, who has long been a vestryman ofthe parish, and has been indefatigable in his efforts towards the restora-tion of the old church, has furnished measurements of the building. Itis in the form of a Greek cross, the main body of the church and thetransepts measuring externally sixty-eight feet. As the walls are threefeet thick, the interior dimensions are sixty-two feet. The ceiling, whichforms a groined arch over the intersection of the aisles, is thirty-threefeet from the floor, and the top of the roof is ten feet higher. Theflooring of the aisles, of

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