Old Blue Run Baptist Church  -  near Tibbstown, Virginia 

Built around 1770, The Old Blue Run Baptist Church is the oldest church in western Orange County, Virginia. It was extensively remodeled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the original framing is probably all that remains of the 18th century building. Nevertheless, it is a good example of early rural vernacular architecture.

This building was the original 18th century meeting house of the Somerset congregation of Separate Baptists. In 1876, the congregation sold the church to another Baptist congregation which continues to meet there. The Somerset congregation purchased land west of Somerset and built the (new) Blue Run Baptist Church. (See last Sunday's post)

A large sandstone monument stands next to the church and is inscribed:

Here lies interred the Remains
of Jane Webb, who Departed 
this life on Wednesday, the 26th of
February, 1783, in the 43rd year 
of her age.