Episcopal Church in the County in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)

The church where the Sutpen family worships in Absalom, Absalom! is identified on Faulkner's 1936 map only as "Church (which Sutpen rode fast to)" ([314]). This novel does not mention the church's denominational affiliation, but if the Sutpens - the owners of the largest and wealthiest planation in Yoknapatawpha - attend it, it's almost certainly Episcopalian. And it's just as likely that this is the same location as the Episcopal Church north of Jefferson that the Sartorises attend in The Unvanquished, written almost simultaneously with Absalom! Both novels mention "the hitching grove" behind the church that "would be full of carriages from the other plantations" (Absalom!, 17; Unvanquished, 135). In any case, we treat the churches in these texts as the same text. It's also possible that it may be one of the "three churches" that, according to Absalom!, are already in Jefferson in 1833 (24).