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"St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church was erected here in 1921. in October of 1908,
Reverend Girard William Phelps, who came to Victoria from North
Carolina, who had been appointed to mission work in the Victoria area by
The Right Reverend Beverley D. Tucker, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of southern Virginia. Reverend Phelps first held services in St. Paul's,
the "old brick" Episcopal Church, one and one-half miles north of
Victoria on the Crewe Road. The original St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
structure was built in 1908 at First Street and Lunenburg Avenue in
Victoria. The Reverend Herbert H. Young arrived in 1916 to assist. Mr.
Phelps died in 1918. Mr. Young continued as rector of the Parish until
1921, and it was during his tenure that a larger, brick St. Andrew's was
built on this corner of Ninth St. and Washington Ave. in 1921. This
marker memorializes those early Episcopalian priests and all who
worshiped here through out the twentieth century. In 1995 St. Andrew's
joined St. Paul's to become the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St.
Andrew of Kenbridge. Sadly, the St. Andrew's church building burned in
May 2014, and was subsequently secularized and demolished in August of
2015."
