| Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church | |
| Location: | Rocky Spring Road, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) northwest of Funk Road, Letterkenny Township, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates: | 39.9886°N -77.6764°W |
| Built: | 1794 |
| Architect: | Beatty, Walter |
| Architecture: | Georgian |
| Added: | May 13, 1994 |
| Refnum: | 94000430 |
The Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church is an historic, American Presbyterian church that is located in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Built in 1794, this historic structure is a -story, four by six-bay, brick, Georgian-style building that measures forty-eight feet by sixty feet, and has a gable roof. The interior of the church includes two ten-plate stoves, brick aisleways, a crude ladder leading to a loft, and wooden pews that are long and narrow with high straight-backed seating. The ends of the pews are carved with the names of the previous occupants identifying the military ranks they held during the Revolutionary War.
Rocky Springs Church was a pay for pew church that required members to sign a financial agreement between the trustees of the church and the pew holders requiring an annual fee for occupancy of the pew.[1]
The Church's pulpit is circular in form and positioned above the pews giving the speaker full view of the congregation. Access is gained by a staircase. Above the pulpit is an oval-shaped canopy or sounding board.
Five acres of land to build the church were acquired by warrant on November 6, 1792. Trustees of the congregation[2] who acquired the land upon which to build the church included: George Matthews, Esq., James McCalmont, Esq., James Ferguson, Esq., James Culbertson, Esq., and Samuel Culbertson. The property includes the church cemetery; the oldest gravestone dates to the 1780s.[3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Each year, the church is opened for an annual Presbyterian service giving the people in attendance an opportunity to experience the austere beauty of the church.[4]