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Little Fork Church stands on a low knoll to the east of State Route 229 nine miles north of Culpeper, Virginia in a small grove of trees that enhances its naturally pastoral setting. The name Little Fork is taken from the junction of the Hazel and Rappahannock Rivers relatively close to the edifice. It is a large room church being 83 ½ feet east-west and 33 ½ feet north-south.〔Rawlings 239-240〕 Unlike most rectangular churches in Virginia, the pulpit stands directly north of the southern entrance door that is placed in the middle of the southern wall rather than in the far southeast of the building. Thus it shows some of the architectural characteristics of middle colony meeting houses such as those in Delaware as well as the Virginia Vernacular Church and the deep church.〔Upton 92-92; the phrase deep church refers a building of greater length to accommodate the acoustical needs of a larger congregation: the ratio of the average rectangular church of 60’ x 24’ is 2.5:1 as is the ratio of length to width of this church that is 2.51:1〕 ==Parish affiliation== It is attached to St. Mark’s Parish that, like most early parishes in Virginia, changed its suzerainty and geographic range as counties became established by partitioning earlier counties due to population growth or shifts. Its creation and history are: *St. Mark’s Parish formed from St. George’s Parish 1730-31 *St. Thomas’s Parish in Orange County partitioned from St. Mark’s Parish in 1740 *Culpeper County formed out of Orange County in 1748〔Rawlings 239; “Little Fork Episcopal Church”〕 Little Fork was a chapel of ease for the parish, and thus was never the lower, or main, parish church. It is the only remaining colonial church in the county.〔Rawlings 239; Upton 92-93; “Little Fork Episcopal Church”〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Fork Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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