Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | June 16, 2011[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 128-6271 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 806 Jamison Ave., SE, Roanoke, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 37.2689°N -79.9297°W |
Built: | -1921 |
Architect: | Cain, Herbert L., Miller, Homer M. |
Builder: | Clemmer, John L. |
Architecture: | Late Gothic Revival |
Added: | August 18, 2011 |
Refnum: | 11000551[2] |
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is a historic church building, located in the Belmont neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built as a Methodist Episcopal church between 1917 and 1921, and is a three-story, brick, late Gothic Revival-style church. It features a tall bell tower, complex roof form, steeply-pitched gables and parapets, large pointed arch windows, crenellated corner towers, buttresses, cast-concrete quatrefoils, and other detailing.[3] Capacity within sight and hearing of the pulpit is 1,000, as the original auditorium (seats 440) was enlarged with an adjoining parlor (75), an adult assembly room (260), and a gallery (225).[4]
In a notice from 1917, H. L. Cain is named the architect of the church building, and the cost of the building was initially budgeted at $50,000.00.[5]
The building was sold in 2003 to the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, who used it as their sanctuary; that church has since vacated the building.[6] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2011.[7] Since 2019, it has also been a contributing structure to the NRHP-listed Belmont Historic District.[8]