St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Eden, North Carolina) Explained

St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Coordinates:36.5169°N -79.7608°W
Built:1926
Architect:J.W. Hopper; Jim Chatham
Architecture:Mission Gothic
Added:March 17, 1989
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:89000177

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, also known as The Rock Church, is a historic Episcopal church located at 604 Morgan Road in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story Mission Gothic style solid masonry church. It has a gabled roof that is intersected by gabled transepts and a pointed arch tracery stained glass window. A stained-glass window at St. Luke's was given by Lily Morehead Mebane in memory of her mother, Mary Lily Connally Morehead.[1] It features a three-stage crenellated corner tower.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Notes and References

  1. Resurrection window, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Eden, North Carolina.
  2. Web site: Linda Harris Edmiston. St. Luke's Episcopal Church. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1988. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.