St. John's Episcopal Church (Roanoke, Virginia)

St. John's Episcopal Church
St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2010
Location Jct. of Jefferson St. and Elm Ave., SW corner, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates 37°16′0″N 79°56′30″W / 37.26667°N 79.94167°W / 37.26667; -79.94167Coordinates: 37°16′0″N 79°56′30″W / 37.26667°N 79.94167°W / 37.26667; -79.94167
Area 0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built 1891 (1891)–1892, 1923
Architect Burns, Charles Marquedant; et al.
Architectural style Gothic, Tudor Revival
NRHP reference # 91001083[1]
VLR # 128-0236
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 23, 1991
Designated VLR June 19, 1991[2]

St. John's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1891–1892, and is a Gothic style blue-gray limestone church designed by Charles M. Burns of Philadelphia. It has a nave-plan with side aisles, a corner bell tower, a sacristy wing, and a transverse chapel and narthex to the rear. The nave features a hammerbeam roof and wooden arcading and is illuminated by stained glass windows in the clerestory and side aisle walls including several by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Attached to the church by a stone addition built in 1958, is a Tudor Revival style Parish House built in 1923.[3]

A church history was printed during the centennial of the building.[4]

"The Church in Roanoke" is a historical sermon, preached by invitation on the occasion of the opening of Christ Church, Roanoke, (the old St. John's Church on Church Avenue) 14 December 1902, and repeated in St. John's Church, Jefferson Street and Elm Avenue, February 8, 1914.[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[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 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Mary Bland Armistead; Henry Davenport; Barry A. Rakes; Clare White & Daniel Pezzoni (April 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: St. John's Episcopal Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ White, Clare. St. John's Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke, Va: The Church, 1992. Notes: "Published by St. John's Episcopal Church in commemoration of the centennial celebration of the church building at Jefferson Street and Elm Avenue." Description: 207 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles.
  5. ↑ Ingle, Edward H. Sermon by Edward H. Ingle. 1914. A typescript located at the University of Virginia Library. OCLC Number: 647894855.


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