Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Powhatan, Virginia)

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Emmanuel Church, September 2012
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Location	Emmanuel 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
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Architect	Davis, Alexander Jackson; Cocke, Gen. Philip St. George [1]
Architectural style	Gothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	90001924 [2]
VLR No.	072-0013
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1990
Designated VLR	December 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]

References

1. Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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 September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 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