Presbyterians and Episcopalians were the denominations most likely to favor the early phase of Gothic Revival as used here. Characterized by pointed-arched openings, the emerging style had not yet broken away from the traditional classical gable-end rectangular structure of earlier decades. Also indicative of this is the pediment with broken ends over the central entrance.
Anne Carter Lee, "Old Brick Presbyterian Church", [Crewe, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-NW3.
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 296-296.
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