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Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church

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NRHP Reference #
  
73001993

Designated VLR
  
January 16, 1973

Phone
  
+1 540-885-0746

Added to NRHP
  
11 April 1973

VLR #
  
007-0033

Area
  
4 ha

Year built
  
1850

Architect
  
Robert Lewis Dabney

Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church

Location
  
VA 608, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the junction with VA 636 and VA 631, Fishersville, Virginia

Address
  
30 Tinkling Spring Dr, Fishersville, VA 22939, USA

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
First Presbyter Church, Olivet Presbyter Church, Westmins Presbyter Church, Covenant Presbyter Church, Tabernacle Presbyter Church

The Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church, is a Presbyterian church founded in 1740, and is the second-oldest Presbyterian congregation in the Valley of Virginia (the Shenandoah Valley). Its historic building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

The church's first building was a log structure built during 1742-1748. Its 1850 Greek Revival building is its third building, and is significant architecturally for being designed by Robert Lewis Dabney who served as pastor there from 1852-1857. This Greek Revival building, along with two other churches designed by Dabney, is credited with influencing ecclessiastic architecture in Virginia. Dabney designed at least two other NRHP-listed churches, Briery Church, in Briery, Virginia, and New Providence Presbyterian Church, near Brownsburg, Virginia.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

References

Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Wikipedia