Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Powhatan, Virginia) Explained

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Designated Other1:	Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:	December 12, 1989^[1]
Designated Other1 Number:	072-0013
Designated Other1 Num Position:	bottom
Location:	Emmanuel Church Rd. S of US 60, Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates:	37.56°N -77.9547°W
Architect:	Davis, Alexander Jackson Cocke, Gen. Philip St. George^[2]
Architecture:	Gothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
Added:	December 27, 1990
Refnum:	90001924

Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built between 1842 and 1850, and is a one-story, vernacular Gothic Revival brick church building painted white. It features a stepped gable parapet, a half-octagonal apse which served as a vestry, and four tall window bays interspaced with slim buttresses.^[3] It also contains a cemetery in the back yard and north side of the church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
2. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/072-0013/ Virginia Department of Historic Resources
3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Emmanuel Episcopal Church . Jane Covington . September 1989. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo