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Despite the changes, the church remains an important part of Sperryville’s history and heritage, worthy of preservation.
Ib celebrate the building’s 100th year, its current owners, Jim and Joan Gannon, have declared the coming week to be Centennial Days at the Old Sperryville Bookshop.
In a rollback to 1902 levels, coffee will be priced at five cents a cup, and just-baked cookies will be complimentary. “We hope local people who have not been in this old building in recent years will stop by and see that it still retains its quiet charm and warm atmosphere,” Mr. Gannon said. “You can still feel the spirits of many generations here, and they are good spirits.”
The history of the old church reflects broader trends of growth, change, decline and rebirth in Rappahannock County.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church grew out of the desire of a handful of Sperryville residents to have their own place to worship, even though there were two other Episcopal churches in the county when the Sperryville chapel was built.
At the turn of the 20th Century, Episcopalians in the county worshipped at Trinity Church, built in 1857, in the town of Washington, and St. Paul’s Church, built around 1840, in Woodville.
But in those days of horseand-buggy travel on rutted, muddy roads, a seven or eight
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