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Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Coordinates: 36°46′41.8″N 80°23′33.3″W / 36.778278°N 80.392583°W / 36.778278; -80.392583
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Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Front and eastern side
Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located in Virginia
Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located in the United States
Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Location149 Rock Church Road, Meadows of Dan, Virginia
Coordinates36°46′41.8″N 80°23′33.3″W / 36.778278°N 80.392583°W / 36.778278; -80.392583
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1932
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPSReverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS
NRHP reference No.07000227[1]
VLR No.031-5005
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 2007
Designated VLRDecember 6, 2006[2]

Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Patrick County, Virginia. It was built in 1932, 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 centered on the building's front elevation. The building was erected on a concrete block foundation, and has walls of light wood framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Randle Brim; John Kern & Michael Pulice (December 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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