Westover Church | |
 Westover Church, 1930, by Frances Benjamin Johnston | |
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| Location | 5 mi. W of Charles City off VA 5, Charles City, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°19′56″N 77°9′33″W / 37.33222°N 77.15917°W |
| Area | 40 acres (16 ha) |
| Built | 1731 |
| NRHP reference No. | 72001502[1] |
| VLR No. | 018-0028 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 05, 1972 |
| Designated VLR | August 15, 1972[2] |
Westover Church is a historic church located 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Charles City off Virginia State Route 5 in Charles City, Virginia, United States.[3] It was built in 1731 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
Theodorick Bland of Westover, Walter Aston, and William Byrd I are buried near the original site of the Westover Church.[4][5] The tomb of Benjamin Harrison IV has also been reported to be on the grounds.[6]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Mason, George Carrington (1942). "The Colonial Churches of Charles City County, Virginia". The William and Mary Quarterly. 22 (2): 114–135. doi:10.2307/1925293. JSTOR 1925293.
- ^ Bland, Theodorick (1840). "Appendix". In Campbell, Charles (ed.). The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia. Vol. I. Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin. pp. 145–149.
- ^ "Westover". Virginia's James River Plantations. jamesriverplantations.org. 1996. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ^ Bradford, David Thomas (1993). "Philemon and Mary: The Harrisons". The Bradfords of Charles City County, Virginia, and Some of their Descendants, 1653-1993. Gateway Press. p. 84.