Bethel Baptist Church (Midlothian, Virginia)

Bethel Baptist Church
Huguenot Springs Bethel Baptist Church, September 2012
Location 1100 Huguenot Springs Rd., Midlothian, Virginia
Coordinates 37°30′43″N 77°42′41″W / 37.51194°N 77.71139°W / 37.51194; -77.71139Coordinates: 37°30′43″N 77°42′41″W / 37.51194°N 77.71139°W / 37.51194; -77.71139
Area 20.1 acres (8.1 ha)
Built 1894 (1894)
Architect West, W.C
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference # 99000141[1]
VLR # 020-0111
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 22, 1999
Designated VLR September 14, 1998[2]

Bethel Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church complex and cemetery located at Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a brick church with a steeply pitched gable roof in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is the third church on this site. Wings were added to the original church in 1906, 1980, and 1987. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery that includes approximately 500 burials including soldiers of virtually every war in American history from the American Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Lucille C. Moseley (May 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bethel Baptist Church" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo


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