Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

{{Short description|Historic site in Patrick County, Virginia, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = December 6, 2006{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm#|archive-date=2013-09-21|url-status=dead}}

| designated_other1_number = 070-5044

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Bluemont Presbyterian Church.jpg

| caption = Bluemont Presbyterian Church, October 2009

| location = Blue Ridge Pkwy, Mile Post No. 192, near Fancy Gap, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|36|39|27|N|80|34|22|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = org. 1920 1945, 1946

| architect = Childress, Rev. Robert; Slate, Richard

| architecture = Gothic Revival

| added = March 30, 2007

| area = {{convert|1.2|acre}}

| mpsub = [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/MultipleCounty/017-5032_MPD_Childress_Rock_Churches_2006_NRdraft.pdf Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS]

| refnum = 07000219{{NRISref|2009a}}

}}

Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Fancy Gap, Patrick County, Virginia. It is one of the "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built between 1919 and 1950, and is a small frame church building faced in natural quartz and quartzite stone. It features a Gothic styled hexagonal bell tower. The rock facing was added to the frame building in 1946.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Patrick/070-5044_Bluemont_Church_2007_NRfinal.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery|author1=Randle Brim |author2=John Kern |author3=Michael Pulice |name-list-style=amp | date=December 2005|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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