Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Powhatan, Virginia)

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Emmanuel Episcopal Church
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LocationEmmanuel Church Rd. S of US 60, Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates 37°33′36″N77°57′17″W / 37.56000°N 77.95472°W / 37.56000; -77.95472
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Architect Davis, Alexander Jackson; Cocke, Gen. Philip St. George [1]
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 90001924 [2]
VLR No.072-0013
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1990
Designated VLRDecember 12, 1989 [3]

Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built between 1842 and 1850, and is a one-story, vernacular Gothic Revival brick church building painted white. It features a stepped gable parapet, a half-octagonal apse which served as a vestry, and four tall window bays interspaced with slim buttresses. [4] It also contains a cemetery in the back yard and north side of the church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [2]

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References

  1. Virginia Department of Historic Resources
  2. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. Jane Covington (September 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Emmanuel Episcopal Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo