St. George’s History comprises individual articles, documents and collections around the 300 year history of St. George’s Episcopal Church, located in Fredericksburg Virginia. This site is unrelated to St. George's main website.
Supplementing them are a category-based search, a content index and a timeline. We have two tour documents - a building summary and a 15 minute walking tour you can take in the church.
If this is your first visit, check out the 2 tours - building summary and a 15 minute walking tour.
Recent articles
1996 Annual Report
This report was presented to the congregation, Jan 26, 1997 and is an effective summary of 1996, Charles Sydnor’s 20th year. This report is also important since we are missing our entire 1996 Vestry minutes. We do have the newsletters. It was a time of staff changes as Elizabeth Roberson, the parish secretary under both Tom Faulkner and Charles Sydnor retired after 36 years. Ministries were changing and others were being added in pastoral care and in the mission area .
Church-State Ties in Early St. George’s Parish
By Debbie Haliday.
The government and early clergy and vestries of St. George’s Episcopal, 1712-1775
An intimate look at the graveyard and flowers
A 4 minute video of St. George’s graveyard, mostly shot June 9, 2017
Community Dinners at St. George’s, 2009 –
The Community Dinners were a response to a community church call by Micah Ministries to provide a hot meal downtown every night of the week. Churches responded as did St. George’s which became responsible for the dinners on the 3rd and 4th Monday nights and would feed up to 300 individuals a month.
Conversation with Tom and Mary Faulkner, Aug. 10, 1993
A conversation that begins about the creation of Trinity in 1877 and then moves to many other topics in this 40 minute tape.
Gay Rahn – Writings, 2008-2012
A collection of pieces Gay Rahn wrote for the newsletter, St. Georgian, 2008-2010
Children in Mission, 2010
The children, 4th and 5th graders, go on a mission trip in 2010 to Camp Hanover for a lesson growing healthy foods for those who have little access to these foods
Youth Variety show, May, 2010
The youth and invited adults came together to present a variety show in Market Square, May 2010, an original and one time event.
1. Carrol Quenzel's History of St. George's
Quenzel's 1951 history is still the standard for the church. He was a librarian for Mary Washington College as well as being active at St. George's, helping to create the St. Georgian newsletter as well as a part of the Vestry. We have the entire book online which was published by St. George's
2. The Three Churches of St. George's - Barbara Willis
Barbara Willis was a local historian and writer and long time St. Georgian with her husband Mac. This paper is a detailed summary of the evolution of St. George's church from its wooden colonial church to the impressive 1849 brick building we have today.
The Civil War may be the most popular historic topic in all of our history. The church served in 3 capacities - as a fortress, center of revival and as a hospital. We have a 9 part series on our role and relationship to Fredericksburg.
McGuire served all 3 churches over the course of 45 years. He is probably the most influential of all our rectors in all phases of ministry from preaching, teaching, and outreach. Trip Wiggins, our archivist, wrote this for a Sunday school class and has been teaching classes for years
5. Charles Syndor on Social Policy
Charles Sydnor served St. George's from 1972-2003 and was responsible for furthering Thomas Faulkner's outreach ministries and creating new ones. This paper he wrote in 2009 was for an adult forum in that year.
6. Tom Faulkner confronts the Vestry on race
Faulkner served St. George's for 30 years from 1946-1976. During these years racial policies were paramount, especially 1954, in the year of Brown vs. Board of Education, Faulkner was challenged by the Vestry on the role of Blacks in our service. He was able to move St. George's toward racial justice that other rectors would further
