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.
See also
External links
- [http://www.stone-churches.com/Home.htm Stone Churches of Reverend Bob Childress]
References
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia}}
Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Virginia
Category:Churches completed in 1948
Category:Buildings and structures in Patrick County, Virginia
Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Category:Presbyterian churches in Virginia
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Patrick County, Virginia