Church of the Immaculate Conception (Halifax, North Carolina) explained

Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Location:145 S. King St., Halifax, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.3258°N -77.5914°W
Built:1859, 1889
Architect:Durang, Edwin Forrest
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:June 04, 1997
Refnum:97000533

Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic church and cemetery at 145 S. King Street in Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. The church was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Edwin Forrest Durang, and built in 1889. The church is basically a rectangular gable-front Late Gothic Revival style frame building, 20 feet wide and 37 feet deep. It features a pair of asymmetrical projecting corner towers and lancet-arch window openings. Adjacent to the cemetery is the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery, which contains the Michael Ferrall Family Vault built in 1859.[1] The church is one of only two churches still standing that were built by Servant of God Thomas Frederick Price, the first native North Carolinian to become a Catholic priest.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Davyd Foord Hood. Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . January 1997. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.
  2. Web site: 125th Anniversary of Immaculate Conception Church, Halifax (Bishop video) | Diocese of Raleigh . 2018-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180819114446/http://dioceseofraleigh.org/content/125th-anniversary-immaculate-conception-church-halifax-bishop-video . 2018-08-19 . dead .