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Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival

VLR #
  
017-5015

Year built
  
1948

NRHP Reference #
  
07000228

Area
  
4,900 m²

Added to NRHP
  
30 March 2007

Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Location
  
2698 Homestead Rd. Hillsville, Virginia

Architect
  
Childress, Rev. Robert; Slate, Richard

MPS
  
Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS

Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. It was one of the six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress It was built in 1948, and is a white quartz rock-faced frame building. The main block is front-gabled with nave plan and Gothic-style tower at the front, through which the edifice is entered. The tower has corner parapets with crenellations of jagged, light-colored stone fragments between each corner. Attached to the main block is a 1 ½-story, front-gabled addition. The contributing cemetery is enclosed by white quartz pillars connected by black pipes.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery Wikipedia