Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Powhatan, Virginia)

Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built between 1842 and 1850, and is a one-story, vernacular Gothic Revival brick church building painted white. It features a stepped gable parapet, a half-octagonal apse which served as a vestry, and four tall window bays interspaced with slim buttresses.[4] It also contains a cemetery in the back yard and north side of the church.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Emmanuel Church, September 2012
LocationEmmanuel Church Rd. S of US 60, Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates37°33′36″N 77°57′17″W
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
ArchitectDavis, Alexander Jackson; Cocke, Gen. Philip St. George[1]
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.90001924[2]
VLR No.072-0013
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1990
Designated VLRDecember 12, 1989[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[2]

References

  1. Virginia Department of Historic Resources
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. Jane Covington (September 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Emmanuel Episcopal Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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