Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....St. Luke's restoration, 1955 

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Suffolk News-Herald, Volume 33, Number 127, Thurs., 9 June 1955 
p. 1 

TV Show to Air St. Luke's Story 

  SMITHFIELD, June 9 - Henry Mason Day, President of the Historic Saint Luke's 
Restoration, has announced that he has just been advised by Al Morgan, 
producer of the home show on N.B.C. that the story of Saint Luke's Restoration 
will be told by Miss Arlene Francis on television, Monday, June 13th, at 10 
a.m. 

  A Fund Raising Campaign was begun in 1953 for the restoration of Saint 
Luke's to make this most historical spot into a National Christian Shrine and 
work has already been started to restore this Church to it's original beauty. 
At present, the frame-work around the windows is being concentrated on, since 
the wood has been found to be completely crumbling that framed the windows, 
and a miracle that the windows have not given away before this. 

  Traditionally built in 1632 by Sir Joseph Bridger, this church is the only 
English Gothic Church still standing in the United States and the oldest 
encased within it's original walls. 

  Services were held here regularly until the Revolutionary War and have been 
held intermittently since.  It now has no regular communicants and is 
maintained by voluntary contributions. 


*Additional information: 

Antioch cemetery list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical 
   Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #17: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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