Standing a few miles east of the Gloucester County seat, Ware Parish Church is one of the largest parish churches erected in colonial Virginia. The building has traditionally been assumed to date somewhere between the 1690s and the 1720s; a dendrochronological investigation in the early 21st century suggests that the roof was constructed during 1719, with some preparatory work possibly being done during 1718. Few of Virginia’s colonial churches can boast more handsome or better preserved brickwork, which here consists of Flemish bond with clear blue glazed headers and gauged brick arches. The plan of this brick building originally consisted of a double aisle with a central entrance on the west gable and chancel doors on both the eastern end of the south and north walls, an unusual arrangement for a Virginia church where there was generally only a single chancel door. The interior was completely gutted in the 19th century and reworked again in the 20th century so that no original fabric except a small west gallery survives from the colonial period. Although abandoned following the disestablishment, the Ware Parish Church was later reoccupied by the Episcopalians and continues to serve as a parish church.