Floyd Presbyterian Church is a historic

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

located on U.S. 221 in Floyd,

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. It was built in 1850, and is a one-story, three-bay, brick church in the

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style. It has a front gable roof topped by a low steeple and octagonal spire. The front facade features four white-painted stuccoed, Greek

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s. The church was abandoned by its congregation in October, 1974, and the congregation relocated. an
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in 1976. It is located in the Floyd Historic District.

References

External links

Presbyterian Church of Floyd website
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