Cotton, Stephen Charlton, gave land for a glebe to support the minister, and may have given additional funds to build a church.

Since one was married at 12 years of age and soon died in childbirth, litigation occurred, and again after disestablishment of the Episcopal Church circa 1808.

[4][6] In 1679, a contract was entered into for a 40-foot-long wooden church at the Hungars site, although Maj. William Spencer did not give the parish title to the land until 1684.

It may have been built in 1742, perhaps as a result of a ferry to York and Hampton being located nearby since 1731, and was the second largest in Virginia before the Revolutionary war.

Remaining parishioners met at the county's courthouse in Eastville, and the parish preserved the alms basin given the Magothy Bay church by Lt. Gov.

Nicholson circa 1690, as well as the 1741 communion silver given Hungars Church by John Custis (father-in-law of Martha Dandridge's first husband,[8] she later married George Washington).

Its wealthy and politically connected developer, William Lawrence Scott, hired an engineer from Pocomoke City, Maryland to lay it out.

Christ Church was built on land given by Severn E. Parker of Kendall Grove, although the deed was not recorded in his lifetime, but by his daughter.

Bequests and memorials led to the installation of stained glass windows in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they were renovated in 1992.

[12] According to the historic survey, the building was built between 1742 and 1751, and is a one-story, brick, Colonial structure with four-bay north and south facades, two-bay end walls, and a gable roof with modillioned cornice.