{"nrhp_refnum":"69000263","name":"St. Peter's Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8400 Saint Peter's Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Talleysville/Tunstall","county":"New Kent County","state":"VA","lat":37.54036674200006,"lon":-77.05637122699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-10-01","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2012-03-02","areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Peter's Church is an early-eighteenth-century brick parish church on the north side of Route 642, northeast of its junction with Route 609, in New Kent County, Virginia. It sits on about 2 acres and is owned by St. Peter's Parish.","why_significant":"The form argues the church may have been built as early as 1701-03 by William Hughes, making it one of the oldest surviving churches in Virginia. It is also described as one of only four remaining Virginia churches built of brick laid in English bond. With Yeocomico Church, it represents the shift from Gothic to Classical style in the state's church architecture. It was also the church of Martha Washington in her younger years.","narrative":"St. Peter's Church is a one-story brick church in New Kent County, Virginia, built in the early eighteenth century and measuring roughly 64 by 28 feet. Its walls are laid in Flemish bond, and the gable roof ends in curved profiles. A two-story brick tower with a pyramidal roof and four stuccoed brick urns was added in the mid-eighteenth century, replacing an earlier wooden belfry. A wing added before the Revolution was removed in the middle of the nineteenth century. Restoration work in the 1940s and in 1951-52 reopened the original south doorway and several bricked-up windows and rebuilt the curved gable ends. The church may date to 1701-03 and is credited to William Hughes. It is considered one of the oldest surviving churches in Virginia and, with Yeocomico Church, illustrates the move from Gothic to Classical design. Martha Washington worshiped here in her younger years.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"William Hughes (possibly built as early as 1701-03)","architectural_style":"Transition from Gothic to Classical in Virginia ecclesiastical architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated fair. The original south doorway, several windows and the curvilinear gable ends were restored, notably in 1951-52. The property is occupied and in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.322353-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/6820/41682052/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000263.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000263/446a894492-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000263/446a894492-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jjmusgrove","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jjmusgrove</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682052","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Church_(Talleysville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/new-kent-county/st-peters-church-69000263/"}