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St. John's Episcopal Church

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1892. VA 640, 0.35 miles north of Mount Airy
  • (HABS; Photograph by Tim Buchman)

This lovely board-and-batten church was once almost identical to the now-altered Emmanuel Episcopal Church (PI16) in Chatham. It has the same gable-end facade with the entrance through a corner tower, a louvered triangular gable window, and a corner buttress with a pinnacle rising high and needle-sharp. Here, however, the belfry is louvered and the central window of the triple-arched front window, unlike Emmanuel's, is doubled. The church's white walls have contrasting dark-green trim and a bright-red door.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "St. John's Episcopal Church", [Gretna, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-PI23.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 365-365.

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