Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel

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Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel

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Location Penicks Mill Rd. north of Thaxton, Virginia
Coordinates 37°22′50″N79°37′38″W / 37.38056°N 79.62722°W / 37.38056; -79.62722 Coordinates: 37°22′50″N79°37′38″W / 37.38056°N 79.62722°W / 37.38056; -79.62722
Area 1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
Built 1844
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 04000844 [1]
VLR # 009-0178
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 11, 2004
Designated VLR June 6, 2004 [2]

Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel, also known as Thomas Chapel and Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Thaxton, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a small, rectangular-plan, one-story, one-room, brick structure in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It measures 30 feet wide and 40 feet long, and has a three-bay facade and a pedimented front gable roof. [3]

Methodist Episcopal Church religious organization in the United States

The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In 1939, the MEC reunited with two breakaway Methodist denominations to form the Methodist Church. In 1968, the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form the United Methodist Church.

Church (building) building constructed for Christian worship

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Thaxton, Virginia Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States

Thaxton is an unincorporated community in Bedford County, Virginia, United States.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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