Old Bluff Presbyterian Church Explained

Old Bluff Presbyterian Church
Location:	4100 Old Bluff Rd, Godwin, NC 28344
Coordinates:	35.1839°N -78.7236°W
Architecture:	Greek Revival
Added:	August 7, 1974
Refnum:	74001345

Old Bluff Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Wade, Cumberland County, North Carolina.

The church congregation was founded in 1758. Later its pastor was the Rev. John McLeod, who came from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 1770. He was accompanied by many families of Highland Scots.^[1] In 1858 the congregation dedicated a new church building constructed in the Greek Revival style.^[2]

The church is a plain, weatherboarded building with details that appear to be neoclassical moldings, including drill work suggesting triglyphs, dentils, and egg-and-dart, on the frieze and pediment.^[3] It is a large Greek Revival style temple form building. It features a two-story, five-bay tetrastyle porch in antis.^[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

External links

• Old Bluff Presbyterian Church History

Notes and References

1. Bigelow, Francis Hill (1917). Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers, p. 48. The Macmillan Company.
2. Conser, Walter H. (2006). A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society Along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina, p. 116. The University Press of Kentucky.
3. Bishir, Catherine W. (portable ed. 2005). North Carolina Architecture, pp. 226-27. The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
4. Web site: Survey and Planning Unit Staff. Old Bluff Presbyterian Church . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . March 1974. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.