{"nrhp_refnum":"73002004","name":"Old Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 mi. N of Millwood off U.S. 340","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millwood","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.10687110200007,"lon":-78.01458334799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old Chapel is a small stone Episcopal church with an adjoining burying ground at the junction of Routes 340 and 255 (Routes 617 and 340 in the location entry) near Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia. It was completed in 1793 on land given by Colonel Nathaniel Burwell.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest Episcopal church building west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, though architecturally plain. It replaced Cunningham's Chapel, a log church built in 1747, and its graveyard holds notable Virginians such as Governor Edmund Randolph and Colonel Nathaniel Burwell. Significance is recorded under architecture and religion at the local level.","narrative":"Old Chapel is a rectangular, three-bay stone church of coursed rubble limestone with a wood-shingle gable roof, standing on a slope above its burying ground near Millwood in Clarke County. It was completed in 1793 on two acres given by Colonel Nathaniel Burwell of Carter Hall, beside the site of Cunningham's Chapel, a log building from 1747. Inside are a high pulpit with a plain sounding board, an altar rail with turned balusters, straight-backed family pews marked with brass plaques, and a west gallery reached by an exterior stair. The original twelve-over-twelve sashes and frames survive. Old Chapel is described as the oldest Episcopal church building west of the Blue Ridge. A larger congregation built a new church in Millwood by 1834, and services at the chapel became sporadic. It is now used once a year. The graveyard, enclosed by a rubble wall, holds Governor Edmund Randolph, Colonel Burwell and members of the Burwell and Page families.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (specific date 1793)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and unaltered on its original site. Services are held only once a year, and the burying ground is still in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.850168-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/6802/41680232/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002004/9205abeb30-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002004/9205abeb30-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Acroterion","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Chapel_Boyce_VA1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Acroterion</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:Old_Chapel_Boyce_VA1.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000010","name":"Chapel Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/chapel-rural-historic-district-14000010/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680232","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chapel_(Millwood,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713006"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/old-chapel-73002004/"}