Jamestown's churches were rebuilt several times. Archaeologists believe six churches stood on two sites at James Fort. The first, inside the 1607 fort, burned on January 7, 1608.
In 1619 the first Representative Legislative Assembly met in the third church, on July 30. A brick church begun in 1639 burned during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, and a fifth church was in use by about 1686 on its walls and foundations.
That church was abandoned in the 1750s and was in ruins by the 1790s, but its tower survived. It is the only 17th-century structure still standing at Jamestown. Preservation Virginia strengthened it in the 1890s, and in 1907 the Colonial Dames built a memorial church beside it, reusing the tower.