St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Eden, North Carolina)

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Location604 Morgan Rd., Eden, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°31′1″N79°45′39″W / 36.51694°N 79.76083°W / 36.51694; -79.76083 Coordinates: 36°31′1″N79°45′39″W / 36.51694°N 79.76083°W / 36.51694; -79.76083
Arealess than one acre
Built1926
ArchitectJ.W. Hopper; Jim Chatham
Architectural styleMission Gothic
NRHP reference No. 89000177 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 17, 1989

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, also known as The Rock Church, is a historic Episcopal church located at 604 Morgan Road in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story Mission Gothic style solid masonry church. It has a gabled roof that is intersected by gabled transepts and a pointed arch tracery stained glass window. A stained-glass window at St. Luke's was given by Lily Morehead Mebane in memory of her mother, Mary Lily Connally Morehead. [2] It features a three-stage crenellated corner tower. [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Resurrection window, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Eden, North Carolina.
  3. Linda Harris Edmiston (September 1988). "St. Luke's Episcopal Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.