Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery explained

Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:March 30, 2007[1]
Designated Other1 Number:031-0045
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:5733 Floyd Highway, S., Willis, Virginia
Coordinates:36.8572°N -80.4833°W
Built:1954
Architect:Lyle, Stanley
Architecture:Gothic Revival
Added:March 30, 2007
Mpsub:Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS
Refnum:07000226

Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, also known as Grace Baptist Church, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1954, and is one of six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress and built between 1919 and the early 1950s. The building consists of a one-story, gable-fronted rectangular form with a roughly square, Gothic Revival bell tower on the building's northeast corner. The building was erected on a poured concrete foundation, and has walls of light framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery . Randle Brim . John Kern . Michael Pulice . amp . December 2005. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos