Flint Hill Baptist Church Explained

Flint Hill Baptist Church
Nrhp Type2:cp
Nocat:yes
Designated Nrhp Type2:January 27, 2012
Partof:Flint Hill Historic District
Partof Refnum:11001070
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:July 2, 1997[1]
Designated Other1 Number:078-0066
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:0.3 mi N of jct. of US 522 and VA 729, Flint Hill, Virginia
Coordinates:38.7639°N -78.1003°W
Architecture:Late Victorian
Added:December 1, 1997
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:97001509

Flint Hill Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1854 and expanded and remodeled in the 1890s in the Late Victorian style. The original section is a one-story, gable-roofed, frame-and-weatherboard rectangular structure. Later additions are the front entrance tower topped with a belfry and Sunday school rooms to the rear. It features six stained-glass windows. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.[2] Among those buried in the churchyard is Confederate Private Albert Gallatin Willis, one of Mosby's Rangers and a seminarian who offered himself for execution in the place of a married comrade-in-arms;[3] the grave is noted with a marker in the Civil War Trails series.[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and included in the Flint Hill Historic District in 2012.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flint Hill Baptist Church . Arland F. Welch. April 1997 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  3. Web site: Albert Gallatin Willis Marker. 25 May 2016.