Buffalo Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian Church located in Pamplin, Prince Edward County, Virginia. Built about 1804, it is a simple frame weather-boarded structure with a gable roof covered with standing seam metal. Early in the 20th century the front of the church was reoriented to the east and, in 1931, an addition was made, consisting of an entrance vestibule flanked on either side by a small classroom. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery, with a number of stone markers, the earliest of which is dated 1832. The congregation of Buffalo was formed in 1739 and is the earliest extant Presbyterian congregation in Southside Virginia.
Robert "Bob" Walter Childress was a Presbyterian minister who was born in "The Hollow," now Ararat, Virginia, and grew up surrounded by the Primitive Baptist tradition. He became known throughout the Southern Appalachian region for his work to transform the region's culture of violence and promote basic education. He was also the founder of the famous "Rock Churches" of Floyd, Patrick and Carroll counties in Virginia.
Old Providence Stone Church is a historic church in Spottswood, Virginia in Augusta County, Virginia.
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, also known as Grace Baptist Church, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1954, and is one of six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress and built between 1919 and the early 1950s. The building consists of a one-story, gable-fronted rectangular form with a roughly square, Gothic Revival bell tower on the building's northeast corner. The building was erected on a poured concrete foundation, and has walls of light framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer.
Walker's Creek Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia. The church was built in 1897–1898, and is a one-story, L-shaped, frame building in the Gothic Revival style. It features a metal-sheathed gable roof, painted poplar weatherboard siding, a sandstone foundation, and an entry / bell tower. The adjacent church cemetery was established in 1911.
Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was the first of the 5 "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1929, and is a rock-faced frame building with a nave plan and front and rear transepts. The nave measures 33 feet wide and 80 feet long. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof covered with standing seam sheet metal. The contributing Cemetery has a continuous wall of mortared quartzitic fieldstones, matching the church exterior.
Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. It was one of the six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress It was built in 1948, and is a white quartz rock-faced frame building. The main block is front-gabled with nave plan and Gothic-style tower at the front, through which the edifice is entered. The tower has corner parapets with crenellations of jagged, light-colored stone fragments between each corner. Attached to the main block is a 11⁄2-story, front-gabled addition. The contributing cemetery is enclosed by white quartz pillars connected by black pipes.
Crockett's Cove Presbyterian Church, also known as Cove Brick Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located near Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The church was built in 1858, and is a small rectangular, Greek Revival style brick church building. The church served as a hospital following the Battle of Cove Mountain.
Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Fancy Gap, Patrick County, Virginia. It is one of the "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built between 1919 and 1950, and is a small frame church building faced in natural quartz and quartzite stone. It features a Gothic styled hexagonal bell tower. The rock facing was added to the frame building in 1946.
Byrd Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Goochland in western Goochland County, Virginia on Dogtown Road. The original building dates from 1838 and is still in active use today. It is a two-story, rectangular brick structure with a slate gable roof. The interior of the church measures 28 feet by 40 feet. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery with graves dating back to at least the 1850s.
Lemmon's Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Portersville in Boone Township, Dubois County, Indiana. The church was built in 1860, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building with Greek Revival style design elements. The one-room building has a gable front roof and rests on a sandstone pier foundation. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery. The church was renovated in 1992.
Mayberry Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 1127 Mayberry Church Road in Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia. It is one of the "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1925, and is a one-story frame church building faced in natural quartz and quartzite stone. It features Gothic styled lancet windows. The rock facing was added to the frame building in 1948.
Lexington Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building at Main and Nelson Streets in Lexington, Virginia. It was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter in 1843, and completed in 1845. A rear addition was built in 1859; stucco added in the 1880s; the building was renovated and enlarged in 1899; and the Sunday School wing was added in 1906. It is a monumental T-shaped, temple form stuccoed brick building in the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a Greek Doric pedimented peristyle portico consisting of six wooden columns and a full entablature. The building is topped by a tower with louvered belfry and spire.
New Dublin Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church complex located at Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1875, and incorporates part of a church built in 1840. It is a one-story, gable-roofed stuccoed brick church building. It primarily exhibits Greek Revival style character, with Gothic Revival style influences. It features a front entry with fanlight, a rose window, two-bay side elevations, a metal sheathed gable roof, and a limestone foundation. Also on the property are a contributing 1874 manse, a cemetery established on the eve of the American Civil War, and an outbuilding.
Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg is a historic Presbyterian church located southwest of Princess Anne and George Streets in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in 1833, and restored in 1866 after being badly damaged during the American Civil War. It is a rectangular brick church building of Jeffersonian Roman Revival design. The church has a triangular, gable-end pediment surmounting a wide entablature which surrounds the entire building. The front facade features four wide, wooden Doric order pilaster, and two round Doric order columns each set at the front edge of the recessed portico. During the American Civil War the church served both Union and Confederate soldiers and it was in this building that Clara Barton came to nurse the wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.
Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1756, altered in 1871, and completely remodeled in 1899–1900. It is a one-story, rectangular gray limestone building with a gable roof. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery with tombstones dated as early as 1773.
Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at 9510 Burwell Road in Greenwich, Prince William County, Virginia. It was started in 1859, and is a one-story, gable-roofed brick church building in the Gothic Revival style. It features two pointed-arched front doors, decorative buttresses on the side walls, and large, pointed, arched windows on the front and side walls. It has a wooden church tower with a louvred belfry and a shingle-covered spire topped by a weathervane. The adjacent cemetery has at least 100 headstones and includes the graves of several American Civil War soldiers, including Captain Bradford Smith Hoskins, a colorful Englishman who rode with Colonel John S. Mosby.
Opequon Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Winchester, in Frederick County, Virginia. It was built in 1897, and is a one-story, gable-roofed, random-rubble stone church. It features Gothic-arched colored-glass, one-over-one windows and a three-stage corner bell tower containing an entrance. Also on the property are four burying grounds with the oldest marked grave site dated to 1742.
New Providence Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1859, and is a monumental, one-story Greek Revival style brick building. Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) may have had a hand in the design of New Providence. The front facade features a central recessed portico marked by slightly projecting flanking piers and a similarly projecting pediment supported on two massive, unfluted Doric order columns. In 1926 a three-story, brick Sunday School wing was added to the rear.
McClung Farm Historic District is a historic home and national historic district located at McDowell, Highland County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and three contributing structures. The main house was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a single-pile, central-passage plan and an original two-story rear addition in a vernacular Federal style. It has a three-bay-wide front porch. The contributing buildings and structures besides the house include: a large barn, a small barn, a cattle ramp, an outhouse, a corncrib, a smokehouse, a shed, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church and its outhouse. The contributing sites are a wood shed foundation, the ruins of the McClung Mill, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery.
